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Why, but the Roman Church and the Church of England are but two…

Quote byWilliam Laud · 1573–1645

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Relation of the Conference betweene William Lawd...and Mr. Fisher the Jesuite (1639), quoted in The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, sometime Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. Volume II: Conference with Fisher (1849), p. 346.

English (original)

Why, but the Roman Church and the Church of England are but two distinct members of that Catholic Church which is spread over the face of the earth. Therefore Rome is not the house where the Church dwells; but Rome itself, as well as other particular churches, dwells in this great universal house.

— William Laud

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