In the midst of this crowded region was the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Some, for example the Church of Ireland, the Scottish and American Episcopal churches, and some other associated churches have a separate name.

In response, the American Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada answered that the actions had been undertaken after lengthy scriptural and theological reflection, legally in accordance with their own canons and constitutions and after extensive consultation with the provinces of the Communion.

* The Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil ( Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil )

* Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui ( Hong Kong Anglican Church ( Episcopal ))

* The Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East

* The Episcopal Church in the Philippines

* The Scottish Episcopal Church

* The Episcopal Church of the Sudan

* The Episcopal Church of the United States of America

* Iglesia Episcopal de Cuba ( Episcopal Church of Cuba ) ( under a metropolitan council )

* The Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church ( extraprovincial to the Archbishop of Canterbury )

The Church of Scotland separated from the Roman Catholic Church with the Scottish Reformation in 1560, and the split from it of the Scottish Episcopal Church began in 1582, in the reign of James VI of Scotland, over disagreements about the role of bishops.

Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).

Thus they formed their own dioceses and national church, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in a mostly amicable separation.

This controversy produced the Free Church of England and, in the United States and Canada, the Reformed Episcopal Church.

Louis Sherry once stayed a fortnight at the Palace, and he was so pleased with omelet Arbogast that he introduced it at his restaurant in New York J. Pierpont Morgan had come in his private train to San Francisco, to attend an Episcopal convention, and brought the restaurateur with him.

In 1835, Methodist Episcopal settlers established Albion College, which was known by a few other names before 1861 when the college was fully authorized to confer four-year degrees on both men and women.

Like all early Germanic rulers, he was heavily involved in ecclesiastical disputes ; in 895, at the Diet of Tribur, he presided over a dispute between the Episcopal sees of Bremen, Hamburg and Cologne over jurisdictional authority, which saw Bremen and Hamburg remain a combined see, independent of the see of Cologne.

Each Episcopal see had its own bishop and his presence was necessary to consecrate any gathering of the church.

He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church and changed his name to Boston, the name of the city where he was converted.

Between then and 1764, when a more formal revised version was published, a number of things happened which were to separate the Scottish Episcopal liturgy more firmly from either the English books of 1549 or 1559.

These changes were incorporated into the 1764 book which was to be the liturgy of the Scottish Episcopal Church ( until 1911 when it was revised ) but it was to influence the liturgy of the Episcopal Church in the United States.

The Church of South India was the first modern Episcopal uniting church, consisting as it did, from its foundation in 1947, at the time of Indian independence, of Anglicans, Methodists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians and Reformed Christians.

His father, Henry Churchill de Mille ( 1853 – 1893 ), was a North Carolina-born dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church, who had earlier begun a career as a playwright, writing his first play at age 15.

His father was born into slavery in 1851 in Pittsboro, North Carolina ; after the Civil War, he graduated from St. Augustine's College and became a prominent minister and founder of St. Michael's Episcopal Church.

His memorial service was held at St. Martins Episcopal Church on May 21, 1977 in New York City.

Its principal author on the Episcopal side was the Rev.

On March 31, Eisenhower's body was returned to the National Cathedral, where he was given an Episcopal Church funeral service.

Shortly after he returned home, Frederick Douglass died of a massive heart attack or stroke in Washington, D. C. His funeral was held at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church where thousands passed by his coffin paying tribute.

Episcopal consecration by one or more other bishops

Since the implementation of concordats between the ELCA and the Episcopal Church of the United States and the ELCIC and the Anglican Church of Canada, all bishops, including the Presiding Bishop ( ELCA ) or the National Bishop ( ELCIC ), have been consecrated using the historic succession, with at least one Anglican bishop serving as co-consecrator.

:* American Century Oral History Project at St. Andrew's Episcopal School is one of the largest pre-collegiate oral history projects and archives in the US

Bishops thus elected serve Episcopal Areas, which consist of one or more Annual Conferences.

Episcopal sees are generally arranged in groups in which the bishop who is the ordinary of one of them has certain powers and duties of oversight over the other sees.

The Camp receives its name from Leonidas Polk, the first Episcopal Bishop in Louisiana, known as the " Fighting Bishop of the Confederacy " and served as one of the major training camps during World War II.

In 1922, the business district of Pocomoke City was destroyed in a large fire ; on one side of town this continued up to the church on 3rd Street, known as St. Mary's Episcopal Church, but the downtown was quickly rebuilt.

In addition to a large Roman Catholic parish, the city contains one of each of the following denominational churches: Episcopal Church, United Methodist, Assemblies of God, United Church of Christ, Mennonite, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Community Alliance Church Christian & Missionary Alliance, eXperience Church, Vineyard Church.

The Church of the Holy Communion, Episcopal | Church of the Holy Communion is one of several St. Peter structures on the National Register of Historic Places.

Bordentown City's one square mile is home to at least 10 houses of worship, including: American Presbyterian Church, B ’ nai Abraham Synagogue, Christ Episcopal Church, Ebenezer Full Gospel Community Church, First Baptist Church of Bordentown, First Presbyterian Church, Mount Zion AME Church, Saint Mary ’ s Roman Catholic Church, Shiloh Baptist Church, Trinity United Methodist Church, and Union Baptist Church.

The district consists of the George Washington Helme snuff mill, housing for employees, accessory buildings, St. George Episcopal Church, Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church, and Helmetta Pond, which at one time served as a source of power for the mill.

Grace Episcopal Church, formerly of Elizabeth Street, was one of the first churches in the United States to use electric lighting.

Girardville has five churches, one New Community Fellowship Church, one Methodist Episcopal, one Lutheran and two Roman Catholic Churches, St. Vincent de Paul and St. Joseph.

In 1946 the Esterbrook Community Church ( one of 29 mission churches in the Episcopal Missionary District of Wyoming ) was built with a window behind the altar with a view to Laramie Peak.

There is only one church in Alta, Wyoming: St. Francis of the Tetons Episcopal Church.

By the 1890s, the town's growth had increased significantly and three new churches were built ( one Episcopal and two Methodist ), along with a very important bridge, still standing and known by residents as the Twin Arch, that helped with railroad transportation.

The town also has one Baptist Church, an Episcopal Church and a Catholic church.

The Episcopal House of Bishops met in Houston one year, and I became intrigued by the leaders of the church — fascinated by their discussions and their erudition.

Francis Asbury ( ăz ' bərē ,-bĕ -), ( August 20, 1745 – March 31, 1816 ) was one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, now The United Methodist Church in the United States.

Selje was one of the first three Episcopal sees in Norway ( Oslo, Nidaros, and Selje ).

Morgan was a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church, and by 1890 was one of its most influential leaders.

Thus, within the Latin-Rite Catholic Church, the term subdeacon now applies only to those ordained to that rank within one of these groups and to acolytes in countries where the Episcopal Conference has chosen to give them the name of subdeacon.