Time before new Anglican dramatist (7)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

T[ime], ERE (before), N[ew], CE (Anglican). Apparently Terence was a Roman dramatist, a.k.a. Publius Terentius Afer. I only thought of Terence Rattigan, who wasn’t a Roman; I remember my embarrassing Am-Dram Dad being in The Winslow Boy when I was a kid.