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Belief and practice. Agencies and programs. Ecumenical relations. See also. References. Further reading. External links. Episcopal Church (United States) The Episcopal Church ( TEC ), based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere, is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
What Do We Believe? The Episcopal Church is a member of the world-wide Anglican Communion, with 70 million members in 164 countries. We are a community of Christians bound together by our belief that Holy Scripture contains the very core of all Christian.
Creeds are statements of our basic beliefs about God. The term comes from the Latin credo, meaning I believe. While we will always have questions about God, the Church, and our own faith, we have two foundational creeds that we use during worship: the Apostles’ Creed used at baptism and daily worship, and the Nicene Creed used at communion.
WHAT DO EPISCOPALIANS BELIEVE. The Episcopal Church has many influences, but three stand out: Scripture, tradition and reason. Our beliefs are succinctly captured in the Baptismal Covenant. SCRIPTURE. TRADITION. REASON. THE BAPTISMAL COVENANT.
Episcopal Beliefs. The word “episcopal” refers to governance by bishops. The historic episcopate (bishops) continues the work of the first apostles in the Church: guarding the faith, unity and discipline of the Church, and ordaining men and women to continue Christ’s ministry.
What Episcopalians believe is simple, to some extent, but not simplistic. A true answer might be to say that we believe in God, in Jesus Christ the Son of God, and in the Holy Spirit. But in our world today, full of division and uncertainty, many people find that simple answer unsatisfying. After all, don’t ALL Christians believe those things?
As Episcopalians, we believe: The Holy Scriptures are the revealed word of God, which inspired the human authors of the Scripture, and which is interpreted by the Church under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The Nicene Creed is the basic statement of our belief about God.
