What does antidisestablishmentarianisms mean?

Answer 1

It is the doctrine or political position that opposes the withdrawal of state recognition of an established church. Specifically, antidisestablishmentarianism was opposition to the withdrawal of support for the Anglican Church by the English government in the 19th century.

Antidisestablishmentarianism was specifically used to mean opposition to the "disestablishing" of the connections between England and the Anglican Church, the removal of the Anglican Church's status as the state church of England, Ireland, and Wales.

The establishment was maintained in England, but in Ireland the Church of Ireland (Anglican) was disestablished in 1871. In Wales, four Church of England dioceses were disestablished in 1920, subsequently becoming the Church in Wales.

The question of disestablishment of the Church of England is still current, often tied with the position of the English monarch as "Supreme Governor" of the Church (see Act of Settlement 1701). Those who wish to continue the establishment of the Church of England are referred to as Antidisestablishmentarians, and are sometimes characterized as being against the separation of church and state.

Answer 2

A political philosophy opposed to the separation of a religious group (church) and a government especially the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.