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| The Episcopal Church | |
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| Abbreviation | TEC, PECUSA |
| Classification | Protestant |
| Orientation | Anglican |
| Scripture | Holy Bible |
| Theology | Anglican doctrine (with various theological and doctrinal identities, including Anglo-Catholic, Liberal and Evangelical) |
| Polity | Episcopal |
| Governance | Unitary (General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America) |
| Presiding bishop | Sean W. Rowe |
| President of the House of Deputies | Julia Ayala Harris |
| Chief of Mission | Rev. Lester V. Mackenzie |
| Distinct fellowships | Anglican Communion |
| Provinces | 9 |
| Dioceses | 106 |
| Parishes | 6,789 (2022)[2] |
| Associations | Anglican Communion National Council of Churches World Council of Churches Christian Churches Together in the USA |
| Full communion | Church of Sweden[3] Union of Utrecht Philippine Independent Church Mar Thoma Syrian Church Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Northern and Southern Provinces of the Moravian Church in America Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria |
| Region | United States Further dioceses in Cuba Haiti Taiwan Latin America and the Caribbean Europe |
| Language | English (main communications), Spanish, and French (both metropolitan and Canadian) as major spoken languages but parishes are open to use the language they please. |
| Liturgy | 1979 Book of Common Prayer |
| Headquarters | 815 Second Avenue New York, New York United States |
| Origin | 1785 |
| Branched from | Church of England |
| Absorbed | Church of Hawaii (1890s) |
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| Members | 1,584,785 active members (2022)[4] 1,432,082 active baptized members in the U.S. (2022)[5] |
| Other name(s) | The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, La Iglesia Episcopal, La Iglesia Episcopal Protestante de los Estados Unidos de América, L'Église épiscopale, L'Église protestante épiscopale des États-Unis d'Amérique |
| Official website | www |
| The Archives of the Episcopal Church | www.episcopalarchives.org |
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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. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Sean W. Rowe.[7]
As of 2022, the Episcopal Church had 1,584,785 members,[4] of whom 1,432,082 were in the United States.[5] In 2011,[update] it was the nation's 14th largest denomination.[8] In 2015,[update] Pew Research estimated that 1.2 percent of the adult population in the United States, or 3 million people, self-identify as mainline Episcopalians.[9] The church has recorded a regular decline in membership and Sunday attendance since the 1960s, particularly in the Northeast and Upper Midwest.[10]
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 Episcopal Church describes itself as "Protestant, yet catholic"[11] and asserts apostolic succession, tracing its bishops back to the apostles via holy orders. The 1979 Book of Common Prayer, a collection of rites, blessings, liturgies, and prayers used throughout the Anglican Communion, is central to Episcopal worship. A broad spectrum of theological views is represented within the Episcopal Church, including evangelical, Anglo-Catholic, and broad church views.
Historically, the members of the Episcopal Church have played leadership roles in many aspects of American life, including politics, business, science, the arts, and education.[12][13][14][15] About three-quarters of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were affiliated with the Episcopal Church, and over a quarter of all Presidents of the United States have been Episcopalians.[16] Historically, Episcopalians were overrepresented among American scientific elite and Nobel Prize winners.[17][18] Numbers of the most wealthy and affluent American families, such as Boston Brahmin, Old Philadelphians,[19] Tidewater, and Lowcountry gentry or old money, are Episcopalians.[13][20] In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many Episcopalians were active in the Social Gospel movement.[21]
Since the 1960s and 1970s, the church has pursued a more liberal Christian course; there remains a wide spectrum of liberals and conservatives within the church. In 2015, the church's 78th triennial General Convention passed resolutions allowing the blessing of same-sex marriages and approved two official liturgies to bless such unions.[22] It has opposed the death penalty and supported the civil rights movement. The church calls for the full legal equality of LGBT people.[23] In view of this trend, the conventions of four dioceses of the Episcopal Church voted in 2007 and 2008 to leave that church and to join the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America. Twelve other jurisdictions, serving an estimated 100,000 persons at that time, formed the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) in 2008. The ACNA and the Episcopal Church are not in full communion with one another.
- ^ "Journal of the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America" (PDF). The Episcopal Church. 1940. p. 288.
- ^ "Annual Table of Statistics". The General Convention of The Episcopal Church. Retrieved August 5, 2024.
- ^ Lasserre, Matthieu (March 27, 2023). "The American Cathedral in Paris celebrates 100 years". La Croix. Paris. Retrieved March 28, 2023.
- ^ a b Baptized Members by Province and Diocese 2013-2022 (pdf), The Episcopal Church, retrieved December 22, 2023
- ^ a b FAST FACTS From Parochial Report Data 2022, The Episcopal Church, retrieved December 22, 2023
- ^ "Episcopal Church, The". The Episcopal Church. May 22, 2012. Retrieved July 28, 2024.
- ^ Paulsen, David (June 26, 2024). "Breaking: Sean Rowe elected 28th presiding bishop, will begin nine-year term Nov. 1". Episcopal News Service. Retrieved June 26, 2024.
- ^ "Trends continue in church membership growth or decline, reports 2011 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches", News from the National Council of Churches, National Council of Churches News Service, February 14, 2011, archived from the original on January 19, 2012, retrieved December 29, 2011,
14. The Episcopal Church, 2,026,343 members, down 2.48 percent.
Note: The number of members given here is the total number of baptized members in 2012 (cf. Baptized Members by Province and Diocese 2002–2013). - ^ "Religious Landscape Study". Pew Research. Retrieved February 12, 2016.
- ^ Millard, Egan (October 16, 2020). "2019 parochial reports show continued decline and a 'dire' future for The Episcopal Church". Episcopal News Service. The Episcopal Church. Retrieved November 3, 2022.
- ^ "What makes us Anglican? Hallmarks of the Episcopal Church". Episcopalchurch.org. Archived from the original on June 6, 2017. Retrieved June 1, 2016.
- ^ McKinney, William. "Mainline Protestantism 2000", Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 558, Americans and Religions in the Twenty-First Century (July, 1998), pp. 57–66.
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- ^ Davidson, James D.; Pyle, Ralph E.; Reyes, David V. (1995). "Persistence and Change in the Protestant Establishment, 1930-1992". Social Forces. 74 (1): 157–175. doi:10.1093/sf/74.1.157. JSTOR 2580627.
- ^ "Almost all U.S. presidents, including Trump, have been Christians". Pew Research Center. January 20, 2017.
- ^ Kivisto, Peter; Swatos J., William H.; Christiano, Kevin J. (2015). Kivisto, Peter; Swatos J., Willaiam H. (eds.). Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 97. ISBN 978-1-4422-1693-8.
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