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Reformed Episcopal Church - around 13,000 members - Orthodox, Episcopal/Anglican, Calvinistic; Traditional Protestant Episcopal Church - Orthodox, Episcopal/Anglican; Anglican Mission in the Americas; Anglican Church in North America; Reformed Anglican Church; United Episcopal Church of North America
The word Episcopal ("of or pertaining to bishops") is preferred in the title of the Episcopal Church (the province of the Anglican Communion covering the United States) and the Scottish Episcopal Church, though the full name of the former is The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
The Episcopal Church (TEC), also officially the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), [6] is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces.
Anglican Church of Australia – 3.1 million [43] Anglican Church of Southern Africa – 3 million [44] [45] Anglican Church of Tanzania – 2.0 million [46] Episcopal Church in the United States – 1.6 million [47] Church of North India – 1.5 million [48] Province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan – 1.1 million [citation needed]
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, which is separate from the Episcopal Church (TEC), is not a member of the Anglican Communion. It comprises five dioceses and around 5,200 members.
The evangelical revival in the Episcopal Church was part of a larger postwar evangelical resurgence known in North America as neo-evangelicalism, and it was promoted and supported by Anglicans from England, where evangelical Anglicanism had remained a vibrant tradition throughout the 20th century. The most influential voice from England was ...
The Episcopal Church is any of various churches in the Anglican, Methodist and Open Episcopal traditions. An episcopal church has bishops in its organisational structure (see episcopal polity ). Episcopalian is a synonym for Anglican in Scotland, the United States and several other locations.
Diocesan constitutions do not require the approval of the General Convention. The Episcopal Church is notable among Anglican churches for the extent to which the Constitution and Canons of the General Convention leave matters to regulation at the diocesan and parochial levels. [3]