Order new queen's put before church (8)
I believe the answer is:
sequence
'order' is the definition.
(I know that sequence is a type of order)
'new queen's put before church' is the wordplay.
'new' indicates anagramming the letters.
'put before' says to put letters next to each other.
'church' becomes 'CE' (Church of England).
'queens' with letters rearranged gives 'sequen'.
'sequen'+'ce'='SEQUENCE'
(Other definitions for sequence that I've seen before include "Serial arrangement following a logical order or recurrent pattern" , "Order of succession; hymn sung after gradual" , "Particular order (eg, of events)" , "Run" , "26 [ORDER]" .)