The Society of King Charles the Martyr is an Anglican devotional society and one of the Catholic Societies of the Church of England. (It is also active in the Episcopal Church USA and has international members elsewhere.) It is dedicated to and under the patronage of King Charles I of England (19 November 1600–30 January 1649).
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