Bucket list item: to read through Schaff's 38 volumes of the Church Fathers before I die. I have read a number of selections of the Fathers, but now I'm keen on the chronology, because I want to discern in detail the development of the Catholic Faith.
I bought the set from a friend some years ago for $100. I'm on Vol. 1, just about to finish St. Justin Martyr and to move on to St. Irenaeus. (I've read the Apostolic Fathers, so I'm skipping them.) And while I know that Ter...tullian and Origen are important figures, for me Vol.5 - Hippolytus and Cyprian - is where it seems to all come together, followed by the establishment of the orthodox, catholic faith in the 4th century.
The early Church Fathers are far so removed from us in terms of place, time and circumstance, but you can certainly tell when you read them that they are ours and that we are theirs.
Anglicanism: Protestant or Patristic? If you claim the former, fare ye well. If you claim the latter, well, that's what what all parties of Anglicans claimed. They can't all be right. I personally think the early English Reformers missed the mark, being too enamored of Reformed theology.. If you claim both, well, there is a case to made for that, though the devil is in the details.