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  1. The mission of The Episcopal Church, as stated in the Book of Common Prayer’s catechism, is “to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ.”. In step with that mission, we follow Jesus into loving, liberating, and life-giving relationships with God, with each other, and with the earth. Learn More.

  2. The Episcopal Church ( TEC ), based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere, is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Michael Bruce Curry, the first African American bishop to serve in that ...

  3. About Us. The Episcopal Church welcomes all who worship Jesus Christ and comprises 108 dioceses and three mission areas in 22 countries or territories. While The Episcopal Church is headquartered in New York City, we are not a national church—we are a multinational denomination. As the only U.S.-based member of the worldwide Anglican ...

  4. 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.

  5. Episcopal Church. Look up Episcopal, episcopal, or episcopalian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Episcopal Church may refer to various churches in the Anglican, Methodist and Open Episcopal traditions. An episcopal church has bishops in its organisational structure (see episcopal polity ). Episcopalian is a synonym for Anglican in Scotland ...

  6. Episcopalians believe that Holy Baptism in any denomination represents the complete entrance of an individual into membership of the Church. An individual becomes part of the Church through the sacrament of baptism by water. Our Lord Jesus Christ tells us that through baptism we are united with God. The Episcopal Church believes that through ...

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