The Episcopal Church

This source names The Episcopal Church directly: "The Episcopal Church's own archival record of Resolution 2009-D025, adopted 14 July 2009 at the 76th General Convention, affirming that ordained ministry in The Episcopal Church is open to gay and..."

This source names Episcopal Church directly: "traditionalists who had left the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada over the ordination of women and of an openly gay bishop, organised through the Common Cause Partnership formed in..."

This source names Episcopal Church directly: "Pension Fund Clergy Pension Plan, The Episcopal Church Lay Employees' Retirement Plan and The Staff Retirement Plan of The Church Pension Fund and Affiliates, for the years ended March 31, 2024 and..."

This source names The Episcopal Church directly: "inauguration of full communion between the Episcopal Church and the Moravian Church's Northern and Southern Provinces at Central Moravian Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, independently..."

This source names The Episcopal Church directly: "inaugurating full communion between the Episcopal Church and the Moravian Church's Northern and Southern Provinces, naming the officiants, describing the joint liturgy, and giving the 2009 General..."

This source names The Episcopal Church directly: "to 90.771 million in 2015, even as the Episcopal Church in the United States roughly halved over the same period and the Communion's center of gravity shifted toward Africa, which grew from 7.718..."

This source names The Episcopal Church directly: "relationships: full communion with the Episcopal Church, voted by the Northern Province on 18 June 2010 and the Southern Province in September 2010, and a covenant partnership, short of full..."

This source names The Episcopal Church directly: "four essentials for church unity that the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops had first put forward at Chicago in 1886: the Scriptures as containing all things necessary to salvation, the Apostles'..."

This source names The Episcopal Church directly: "here, and sixty seven years before the Episcopal Church separated from the Church of England in 1784, also recorded here, a sermon preached before King George I set off the dispute that silenced the..."

This source names The Episcopal Church directly: "in America series, 2004, traces the Episcopal Church from colonial Anglicanism's loss of state establishment after the American Revolution, through Samuel Seabury's 1784 consecration by non-juring..."

This source names The Episcopal Church directly: "On 10 February 2011, representatives of the Episcopal Church and the Moravian Church's Northern and Southern Provinces gathered at Central Moravian Church in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to formally..."

This source names The Episcopal Church directly: "of the Constitution and Canons of The Episcopal Church governing ecclesiastical discipline for clergy, including sexual misconduct."

This source names Episcopal Church directly: "Its members had left the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada over the ordination of women and of an openly gay bishop, organizing first through the Common Cause Partnership formed in..."

This source names The Episcopal Church directly: "arm eighty three years before the Episcopal Church, newly independent, separated from it in 1784, already recorded here."

This source names Episcopal Church directly: "Conference: it names the Scottish Episcopal Church as having approved same sex marriage on second reading in 2017, with the first such wedding in the British Isles on 1 August 2017, the Church in..."

A member province of the Anglican Communion.

Classified as mainline Protestant tradition per Pew Research Center's 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Article XXVIII holds that the sacrament of the Lord's Supper was not by Christ's ordinance reserved, carried about, lifted up, or worshipped.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. None was not carried into the Prayer Book, for the same stated reason.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Prime was not carried into the Prayer Book. The Preface Concerning the Service of the Church says plainly that the ancient orders had become so altered and broken that they were put aside for one book with two daily services.

The Episcopal Church was constituted in 1789 with no crown role of any kind, its first bishop having been consecrated in 1784 by Scottish bishops who required no oath to the British Crown; it elects its own bishops and has never been established.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Article XXV holds that there are two sacraments ordained of Christ in the Gospel, and that the other five are not to be counted for sacraments of the Gospel.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Sext was not carried into the Prayer Book, for the same stated reason.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Terce was not carried into the Prayer Book, for the same stated reason.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Article XXII names the worshipping and adoration of images and of relics among the things it calls a fond thing vainly invented and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Article XXII names the invocation of saints in the same sentence, and the Prayer Book addresses no prayer to any saint.

Held in the Episcopal Church with the same administrative function, though the office is used unevenly between dioceses.

Held in the threefold Anglican ministry, with bishops elected by the diocese rather than appointed by the crown.

The Episcopal Church is organised into dioceses whose bishops are elected by the diocese itself and confirmed by the wider church.

Carried into authorised use by the church's supplemental hymnal, which set the spirituals beside the standard hymnody rather than below it.

Appointed as O Gracious Light at Evening Prayer in the prayer book of 1979, which brought the Greek lamp-lighting hymn into an English office that had never carried it.

The stole in the colour of the season is ordinary across the Episcopal Church, whose vesture settled toward the catholic end of Anglican practice in the twentieth century.

The Episcopal Church was among the founding member churches.

The Episcopal Church uses its own Book of Common Prayer, revised in 1979, which reordered the eucharist as the principal Sunday service and is a different book from the English one under the same name.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Named in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles, 1571, among the books the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners but does not apply to establish any doctrine. Printed and appointed to be read, at a status deliberately short of the canon affirmed at Trent in 1546.

Ordained an Episcopal priest on Ascension Day 1945 at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and served as chaplain to students at Northwestern University; resigned the priesthood in August 1950 and never returned to ordained ministry in any tradition.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The offertory sentences of the communion service are a sustained instruction on giving to the poor, and the alms are collected at that point in the rite.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The Prayer Book provides for the visitation and the anointing of the sick, and the Articles decline to number it among the two sacraments of the gospel.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Baptism is ordinarily by pouring, and the Articles call it a sign of regeneration by which the promises of forgiveness are visibly signed and sealed.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The baptismal covenant is the framework of the catechism and of the renewal of vows at Easter.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Religious orders were dissolved in the sixteenth century and refounded from 1841 onward, so that this church now has communities of monks and nuns under vows.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth, commonly called the Churching of Women, is a service of the Prayer Book.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Compline was not in the sixteenth-century books and was restored in the twentieth, and it is now in general use.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Anglicanism keeps auricular confession available but not required, summarised in the maxim that all may, none must, some should; a general confession said by the whole congregation is the ordinary form.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Confirmation is conferred by a bishop at an age of discretion, and the Prayer Book requires the candidate to renew the promises made at baptism in person.

Episcopal Relief and Development is the official humanitarian and development agency of The Episcopal Church, so linked to it directly.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The Prayer Book sets out a table of the fasts of the church: Ash Wednesday, the forty days of Lent, the ember days, the rogation days and the Fridays of the year.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The Order for the Burial of the Dead is in the Prayer Book, and the sixteenth-century books removed the prayers for the dead that the medieval rite had carried.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The threefold order of bishops, priests and deacons was retained, and since the twentieth century women have been ordained to all three orders in most provinces, which is the sharpest present difference from Rome and the Orthodox churches.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The Articles direct that the baptism of young children is in any wise to be retained as most agreeable with the institution of Christ.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Intinction is widely used, and the church has argued about it, since the Prayer Book directs that the cup be given to each communicant.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The Roman sequence of colours was retained in use and was made explicit again in the modern service books.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The marriage service of the Prayer Book, with its vow to have and to hold, is the ancestor of the wedding words used across the English-speaking world, including by people of no religion.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Morning Prayer is the surviving daily office, and it is Matins and Lauds combined into one service. The reduction of eight hours to two was deliberate and is the plainest liturgical difference between this church and Rome.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Vows of poverty, chastity and obedience are made in the refounded religious communities of this church.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line.

Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Sunday is kept as the Lord's Day with the duty of public worship, without the sabbatarian rigour the Reformed churches attached to it.