Editing Excommunication (section)

==== Church of England ====
The Church of England does not have any specific canons regarding how or why a member can be excommunicated, although it has a canon according to which ecclesiastical burial may be refused to someone "declared excommunicate for some grievous and notorious crime and no man to testify to his repentance".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.churchofengland.org/more/policy-and-thinking/canons-church-england/section-b |title=Canons of the Church of England |website=www.churchofengland.org}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=December 2021}}

The punishment of imprisonment for being excommunicated from the Church of England was removed from English law in 1963.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/1963/1/section/82/1991-02-01 |title= Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Measure 1963, section 82(4) |website=www.legislation.gov.uk}}</ref>

Historian Christopher Hill found that, in pre-revolutionary England, excommunication was common but fell into disrepute because it was applied unevenly and could be avoided on payment of fines.<ref>Christopher Hill ''Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England.'' Secker & Warburg 1964</ref>