![]() The Episcopal Church describes itself as " Protestant, yet Catholic" and claims apostolic succession, tracing its bishops back to the apostles via holy orders. The church was organized after the American Revolution, when it became separate from the Church of England, whose clergy are required to swear allegiance to the British monarch as Supreme Governor of the Church of England. The church has recorded a regular decline in membership and Sunday attendance since the 1960s, particularly in the Northeast and Upper Midwest. In 2015, Pew Research estimated that 1.2 percent of the adult population in the United States, or 3 million people, self-identify as mainline Episcopalians. In 2011, it was the nation's 14th largest denomination. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Michael Bruce Curry, the first African American bishop to serve in that position.Īs of 2021, the Episcopal Church had 1,678,157 members, of whom 1,520,388 were in the United States. ![]() It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces. The Episcopal Church, based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere, is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. La Iglesia Episcopal Protestante de los Estados Unidos de América, L’Église épiscopale, L’Église protestante épiscopale des États-Unis d’Amérique The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, La Iglesia Episcopal, Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter in the Catholic Church (2012)ġ,520,388 active baptized members in the U.S.Anglican Church in North America (2009).Episcopal Church in the Philippines (1990). ![]() Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil (1965). ![]() Northern and Southern Provinces of the Moravian Church in Americaġ979 Book of Common Prayer, Revised Common Lectionary Unitary ( General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America) Mainline Protestant (with various theological and doctrinal identities, including Anglo-Catholic, Liberal and Evangelical) Arms of the Episcopal Church: Argent a cross throughout gules, on a canton azure nine cross crosslets in saltire of the field. ![]()
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