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The Episcopal Church (TEC), officially the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), [5] is a member of the worldwide Anglican Communion, based in the United States. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Sean W. Rowe. [6]
The Episcopal Church in crisis: How sex, the bible, and authority are dividing the faithful (Greenwood, 2008). Painter, Bordon W. "The Vestry in Colonial New England." Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 44#4 (1975): 381–408. in JSTOR; Prichard, Robert W., ed. Readings from the History of the Episcopal Church. (1986).
African Methodist Episcopal Church 2.5 million [62] African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church 1.4 million [63] Christian Methodist Episcopal Church 858,670 members [64] Though not listed as mainline in either the Association of Religion Data Archives or the Pew Research classifications, two groups also appeal to this label.
The largest decline was seen among Catholics, with 10.3% fewer Americans identifying as Catholic in 2023 than in 2013, according to a March 27 poll from the Public Religion Research Institute, ...
The church's American Baptist denomination is part of a cluster of so-called mainline denominations — Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran and others that were once central in their ...
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The constitution was essentially the same as that of the Episcopal Church in the United States. It differed in that it introduced a provincial structure (the Episcopal Church USA would later create provinces as well), and the diocesan and General Conventions were renamed diocesan councils and General Council respectively.
“Welcoming the stranger is not a political act — it’s a sacred obligation,” said the Episcopal Church’s Julia Ayala Harris in a statement. “When immigrants walk through our church ...