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  Episcopal Church may refer to:

Anglican Communion:
  • The Episcopal Church
    Episcopal Church (United States)

    The Episcopal Church, sometimes called The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, is the Province of the Anglican Communion in the United States, Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe....
     in the United States, Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe.
  • Scottish Episcopal Church
    Scottish Episcopal Church

    The Scottish Episcopal Church is a Christian denomination in Scotland and a member of the Anglican Communion, although it itself has pre-Anglican origins....
  • Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil
    Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil

    The Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil is an ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Communion that covers Brazil....
     (Brazil)
  • Iglesia Episcopal de Cuba
    Iglesia Episcopal de Cuba

    The Episcopal Church of Cuba consists of forty-six parishes, and about ten thousand members. It is a part of the Anglican Communion, though part of no ecclesiastical province....
  • Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East
    Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East

    The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East is a ecclesiastical province#Anglican Communion of the Anglican Communion stretching from Iran in the east to Algeria in the west, and Cyprus in the north to Somalia in the south....
  • Episcopal Church in the Philippines
    Episcopal Church in the Philippines

    The Episcopal Church in the Philippines is a province of the Anglican Communion and an offshoot of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America....
  • Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church
    Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church

    The Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church considers itself to be part of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church established by Christ and his apostles; it maintains apostolic succession via the Church of Ireland and the threefold ministry of bishops, priests and deacons; it keeps the three creeds of the Primitive Church; it considers itself...
  • Episcopal Church of the Sudan
    Episcopal Church of the Sudan

    The Episcopal Church of the Sudan is an autonomous ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Communion in Sudan. The province consists of twenty-four dioceses, each headed by a bishop....


Continuing Anglican Movement
  • Anglican Episcopal Church
    Anglican Episcopal Church

    The Anglican Episcopal Church is a Continuing Anglican Movement consisting of parishes in California, Arizona, Florida, and Alabama served by two bishops and ten clergymen....
    , U.S.
  • Episcopal Missionary Church
    Episcopal Missionary Church

    HistoryThe Episcopal Missionary Church is a Continuing Anglican church body in the United States and a member of the Federation of Anglican Churches in the Americas....
    , U.S.
  • Traditional Protestant Episcopal Church
    Traditional Protestant Episcopal Church

    The Traditional Protestant Episcopal Church is a Christian body that sees itself as a continuation of the original Protestant Episcopal Church USA....
    , U.S.
  • Southern Episcopal Church
    Southern Episcopal Church

    The Southern Episcopal Church was founded in Nashville, Tennessee in 1962 by a physician, the Rt. Rev. Burnice Hoyle Webster, and a number of former members of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America....
    , U.S.
  • United Episcopal Church of North America
    United Episcopal Church of North America

    The United Episcopal Church of North America is a Anglicanism Christianity church that is part of the Continuing Anglican movement. Currently the Anglican Catholic Church, Anglican Province of Christ the King and the UECNA are seeking organic unity, which would bring together approximately 300 parishes and would make this united Anglican...
    , U.S.


Anglican, Independent:
  • Free Protestant Episcopal Church
    Free Protestant Episcopal Church

    The Free Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States began as an overseas outreach of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church of England. The English group was formed on November 2, 1897 from the merger of three smaller churches; others were to join later....
    , North America
  • Reformed Episcopal Church
    Reformed Episcopal Church

    The Reformed Episcopal Church is an Anglican Church body in the United States and Canada and a founding member of the new Anglican Church in North America....
    , North and South America, Asia, Europe. Now closely associated with some of the the Continuing Anglican churches.


Methodist
  • African Methodist Episcopal Church
    African Methodist Episcopal Church

    The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the "AME Church", is a Christian denomination founded by Rev. Richard Allen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1816 from several black Methodist congregations in the mid-Atlantic area that wanted independence from white Methodists....
    , U.S.
  • African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
    African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

    The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, or AME Zion Church, was officially formed in 1821, but operated for a number years before then....
    , North America
  • Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
    Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

    The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church is a historically African American religious denomination within the broader context of Methodism. The group was organized in 1870 when several black ministers, with the full support of their whites counterparts in the former Methodist Episcopal Church, South, met to form an organization that would all...
    , North America
  • Christian Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
    Christian Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

    The Christian Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is a tentative name for a merger between the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church....
    , U.S.
  • the former Methodist Episcopal Church
    Methodist Episcopal Church

    The Methodist Episcopal Church, sometimes referred to as the M.E. Church, was a development of the first expression of Methodism in the United States....
    , now part of the United Methodist Church
    United Methodist Church

    The United Methodist Church is a Christian Church that understands itself to be a part of the one Holy catholic Church of Jesus Christ and the Communion of Saints....


Convergence Movement:
  • Charismatic Episcopal Church
    Charismatic Episcopal Church

    The Charismatic Episcopal Church, more officially known as the International Communion of the Charismatic Episcopal Church , is an international Christian Communion established as an autocephalous communion in 1992....
  • Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches
    Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches

    The Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches is an Anglicanism Christian denomination, formed in 1994 largely as a result of the Convergence Movement....


See also

  • Anglicanism
    Anglicanism

    Anglicanism is a tradition of Christianity faith. Churches in this tradition either have historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs, worship and church structures....
  • Continuing Anglican Movement
    Continuing Anglican Movement

    The term Continuing Anglican refers to Anglicanism or former Episcopal Church churches that either separated from the Anglican Communion or formed outside the Anglican Communion in order to continue the faith and practices they believe were altered, revised or abandoned during the modernization of the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Churc...
  • Convergence Movement
    Convergence Movement

    The Convergence Movement refers to a move among evangelicalism and charismatic movement churches in the United States to blend charismatic worship with liturgy from the Book of Common Prayer and other liturgical sources....
  • Church of England
    Church of England

    The Church of England is the State religion Christianity Ecclesia in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the oldest among the communion's thirty-eight independent national and regional churches....
  • Church of Ireland
    Church of Ireland

    The Church of Ireland is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating across the island of Ireland. Like other Anglican churches, it considers itself to be both Catholicism and Protestant Reformation....
  • Methodism
    Methodism

    Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by John Wesley and his younger brother Charles Wesley that sought to keep Methodism as a Revivalism movement within the Church of England....
  • Roman Catholic Church
    Roman Catholic Church

    The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
  • Eastern Orthodox Church
    Eastern Orthodox Church

    The Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest single Christian communion in the world with an estimated 225 million members worldwide. It is considered by its adherents to be the Four Marks of the Church established by Jesus Christ and his Apostles nearly 2000 years ago....
  • Oriental Orthodox Church