Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church (TEC), less commonly known by its other official title, the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA or ECUSA), is the United States-based member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is a Christian church divided into nine provinces and has dioceses in the United States, Taiwan, Micronesia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, as well as the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe and the Navajoland Area Mission. The current Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church is the Most Reverend Michael Curry, the first African American bishop to serve in that position.

The Episcopal Church describes itself as Reformed and "Protestant, Yet Catholic". In 2013, the Episcopal Church had 2,009,084 baptized members, of whom 1,866,758 were in the United States. In 2011, it was the nation's 14th largest denomination. The church's official liturgy and theology are found in the 1979 edition of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP). However, researching organizations, such as Pew, have determined that 1% of Americans identify as mainline Episcopalians or Anglicans. According to ARIS/Barna, 3.5 million Americans identified as Episcopalian highlighting "a gap between those who are affiliated with the church (on membership rolls), versus those who self-identify [as Episcopalians]".

Episcopal Church

An episcopal church has bishops in its organisational structure which is called Episcopal polity.

Episcopal Church may refer to:

Church of Our Most Merciful Saviour (Santee, Nebraska)

The Church of Our Most Merciful Saviour, also known as the Santee Mission, built in 1884, is a historic Carpenter Gothic style Episcopal church located on the Missouri River in the Santee Indian Reservation in Santee, Nebraska. Although its side windows are not arched, it otherwise exhibits all the common features of Carpenter Gothic churches: board and batten siding, lancet windows on the front along with a circular rosette window, belfry tower on the side and main entrance on the side though the belfry tower.

On March 16, 1972, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Episcopal Church.

It is one of two churches in Nebraska included in the Santee Mission of the Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota. It is served by the Rev. Mercy Hobbs and the Rev. David Hussey.

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