The wider Anglican tradition and communion within which the Indian Anglican Church & Council sits.
Anglicans hold the historic Christian faith — the Trinity, and the person and work of Jesus Christ — as confessed in the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds. Anglican doctrine was historically defined in the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion (1571), and Anglican identity across the worldwide Anglican Communion is often summarised by the Lambeth Quadrilateral: Scripture, the Creeds, the two sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist, and the historic Episcopate.
This faith is lived out through the Anglican Tradition — a via media between Catholic and Protestant Christianity that holds together historic liturgy and sacraments with the Reformation's emphasis on Scripture, expressed differently across Anglo-Catholic, Evangelical, and Broad Church parishes.
Anglicanism traces its roots to the Church of England and the English Reformation of the sixteenth century — from Henry VIII's break with Rome, through Archbishop Thomas Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer (1549), to the Elizabethan Settlement of 1559 that shaped the lasting form of the tradition.
As Anglicanism spread worldwide through mission and settlement, its national and regional churches were formally drawn together as the Anglican Communion in 1867, now a global fellowship of around 85 million members across roughly 40 provinces, in communion with the Archbishop of Canterbury.