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e. 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.
t. e. 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 Western church and claims to maintain apostolic succession. [1] Its close links to the Crown led to its reorganization on an independent basis in the 1780s.
The following is a list of the Episcopal Church cathedrals in the United States and its territories. The dioceses are grouped into nine provinces, the first eight of which, for the most part, correspond to regions of the United States. Province IX is composed of dioceses in Latin America.
The following is a list of bishops who currently lead dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States and its territories. Also included in the list are suffragan bishops , provisional bishops , coadjutor bishops , and assistant bishops .
October 15, 1966. Designated NHL. December 19, 1960. Designated NHLDCP. August 29, 1970. St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square is a historic Episcopal church located at Sixteenth Street and H Street NW, in Washington, D.C., along Black Lives Matter Plaza. The Greek Revival building, designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, is adjacent to ...
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 or outlying U.S. territories, the diocese of Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe, and a diocese for Armed Services and Federal Ministries, for a total of 108 dioceses.
e. 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 also the first religious denomination in the US to organize itself nationally. [4] In 1939, the MEC reunited with two breakaway Methodist denominations (the Methodist Protestant Church and ...
HOL = John Holder, Archbishop of the West Indies (2009-2018) ISO = Andrew Haruhisa Iso, Bishop of Osaka. KER = Greg Kerr-Wilson, Archbishop of Calgary and Metropolitan of Rupert's Land. KIL = Robert Kilgour, Primus and Bishop of Aberdeen. LEA = Arthur Lea, Bishop of Kyushu. LYO = Frank Lyons, Bishop of Bolivia.