The Book of Common Prayer, a collection of rites, blessings, liturgies, and prayers used throughout the Anglican Communion, is central to Episcopal worship. 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. 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. In addition to baptized members, the church reported 138,822 other persons who are active in congregations. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Michael Bruce Curry, the first African-American bishop to serve in that position.Īs of 2020, the Episcopal Church had 1,736,282 baptized members, of whom 1,576,702 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, Anglican Church in North America (2009)ġ,291,640 communicant members and 1,736,282 active baptized members (2020) ġ,576,702 active baptized members in the U.S.Episcopal Church in the Philippines (1990).Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil (1965).The Church of Sweden, Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht, the Philippine Independent Church, the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Northern and Southern Provinces of the Moravian Church in Americaįurther dioceses in Taiwan, Micronesia, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europeġ979 Book of Common Prayer, Revised Common Lectionary Unitary ( General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America)
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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