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Independent (religion)
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Independent (religion)
In
English
church history
,
Independents
advocated local
congregational control
of religious and church matters, without any wider geographical hierarchy, either ecclesiastical or political. Independents reached particular prominence between 1642 and 1660, in the period of the
English Civil War
and of the
Commonwealth
and
Protectorate
, wherein the
Parliamentary
Army became the champion of Independent religious views against the
Anglicanism
or the
Catholicism
of
Royalist
s and the
Presbyterianism
favoured by
Parliament
itself. The Independents advocated freedom of religion for non-Catholics.
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