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    The Episcopal Church (TEC), also officially the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), is a member church of the worldwide...
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  • In the United States, the history of the Episcopal Church has its origins in the Church of England, a church which stresses its continuity with the ancient...
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  • Anglican in Scotland, the United States and several other locations. Episcopal Church (United States) in the United States, Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia...
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  • Convention is the primary governing and legislative body of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. With the exception of the Bible, the Book of...
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  • The Episcopal Church (TEC) is governed by a General Convention and consists of 96 dioceses in the United States proper, plus ten dioceses in other countries...
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  • This is a list of the Presiding Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States. Initially the position of Presiding Bishop rotated geographically...
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  • veneration of saints in the Episcopal Church (United States) is a continuation of an ancient tradition from the early Church which honors important and...
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  • The Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was the oldest and largest Methodist denomination in the United States from its founding in 1784 until 1939. It was...
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    The Episcopal Church, an independent province of the Anglican Communion. This shows the historical succession of the episcopate within this church. The...
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  • worn as a "distinct mark" of an Episcopalian in the United States Armed Forces. The Episcopal Church suggests that Episcopalian service members wear it...
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  • Christian church Episcopate, the see of a bishop – a diocese Episcopal Church (disambiguation), any church with "Episcopal" in its name Episcopal Church (United...
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  • The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the AME Church or AME, is a Methodist denomination based in the United States. It adheres to Wesleyan–Arminian...
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    United States by its historic immigrant groups; for this reason, they are sometimes referred to as heritage churches. The largest are the Episcopal (English)...
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    The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (C.M.E.C.) is a Methodist denomination that is based in the United States. It adheres to Wesleyan-Arminian theology...
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  • Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, or the AME Zion Church (AMEZ) is a historically African-American Christian denomination based in the United States. It was...
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    Catholic dioceses and archdioceses of the United States which include both the dioceses of the Latin Church, which employ the Roman Rite and other Latin...
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  • on various issues of Anglican doctrine. In the American Episcopal Church, the term "broad church" historically denoted latitudinarian churchmanship and...
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  • Episcopal Church (MEC). Disagreement on this issue had been increasing in strength for decades between churches of the Northern and Southern United States;...
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    Reformed Episcopal Church. As of 2022, the REC reported 117 parishes and missions in the United States and two in Canada, and also has churches in Croatia...
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    The Episcopal Church in Delaware, formerly known as the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware, is one of 108 dioceses making up the Episcopal Church in the United...
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  • affiliated with the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Several universities and higher education colleges also have Episcopal Church origins and...
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    The following is a list of bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States, including Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam...
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  • of the Methodist Episcopal Church along with the earlier separated Methodist Protestant Church of 1828. The Methodist Episcopal Church had split in 1844...
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    formation of the Union American Methodist Episcopal Church is a part of the history of Methodism in the United States; it was formally organized in 1865 by...
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  • from consideration to be the Bishop of Reading. In the Episcopal Church in the United States, Gene Robinson was elected and consecrated Bishop of New...
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    The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts is one of the nine original dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Massachusetts was...
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    The Anglican Church in America (ACA) is a Continuing Anglican church body and the United States branch of the Traditional Anglican Church (TAC). The ACA...
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    An episcopal polity is a hierarchical form of church governance in which the chief local authorities are called bishops. The word "bishop" here is derived...
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  • Integrity USA was a nonprofit organization affiliated with the Episcopal Church in the United States. It was founded in 1974 to promote the inclusion of LGBTTooltip...
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  • -based Episcopal Church from 1928 to 1979. An edition in the same tradition as other versions of the Book of Common Prayer used by the churches within...
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