Episcopal Church in the United States of America

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The '''Episcopal Church''' or the '''Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America''' is the American Church of the Amber Andrews Anglicanism/Anglican Mosquito ringtone Anglican communion/Communion. It includes Susie Tease Dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America/dioceses in the Nextel ringtones United States, the Teen Denim US Virgin Islands, Free ringtones Haiti, Kiss Ambers Ass Taiwan, Mosquito ringtone Colombia, the Bad Girl Butts Dominican Republic, Cingular Ringtones Ecuador, and parts his Honduras, and has an extra-provincial relationship with the dioceses of kai bird Puerto Rico and schools which Venezuela. It is sometimes known as the '''Episcopal Church in the USA''', abbreviated '''ECUSA'''.


=History=
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The American bishops thus descend in the agra the historic episcopate/Apostolic succession from the bishops of Scotland, and to this day the nine crosses which symbolise the nine provinces in the arms of the American Episcopal Church form a St Andrew's cross, commemorating the Scottish link. In Scotland, the Episcopal Church is so known because unlike the national state former imam Church of Scotland (which is Presbyterian, i.e. governed by Elders), it is governed by bishops (in Latin ''episcopi''). The word "Anglican" comes from the Latin word ''Anglicana'' which literally means English.

=The Church=
Other than the name difference the national churches are roughly the same, however the different groups (i.e., Anglo-Catholicism/High Church, Broad Church, & Low Church) within the national branches of the Church may be proportionally different in numbers. Like many other Anglican churches, it has entered into a full communion relationship with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

In the United States the Church has a membership of approximately 3 million, and has had such notable members as more than a quarter of all President of the United States/presidents of the United States and Supreme Court of the United States/Supreme Court chief justices as well as roughly half of the members of Congress and Supreme Court associate justices.

The full incorporated name of the denomination in the United States is "The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America," but this name is not used to refer to the church as an ecclesiastical whole.

=Provinces=

The Episcopal Church in the United States has nine provinces, numbered as followed

#New England
#New York, New Jersey, Haiti, United States Virgin Islands, and American Churches in Europe
#Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia
#Alabama, Georgia (U.S. state)/Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, eastern Lousiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
#Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, eastern Missouri, Ohio,
#Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming
#Arkansas, Kansas, western Louisiana, western Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas,
#Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawai'i, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Taiwan, Washington
#Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Venezuela

=The Book of Common Prayer=
The Episcopal Church has published its own Book of Common Prayer (BCP), which was last updated in 1979. Other BCPs were isssued in 1789, 1892, and 1928. A proposed BCP was issued in 1786. The BCP is public domain; however, any new revisions of the BCP are copyrighted until they are approved by the General Convention. After this happens, the BCP is placed into the public domain. The text is controlled by the Custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer.

=Church Polity=
The Church holds its General Convention every three years, the most recent taking place in
2003.

=Colleges Affiliated with the Episcopal Church=
*Bard College, Annandale, New York
*Clarkson College, Omaha, Nebraska
*Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York
*Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
*St. Augustine College, Chicago, Illinois
*St. Augustine's College, Raleigh, North Carolina
*St. Paul's College, Lawrenceville, Virginia
*University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
*Voorhees College, Denmark, South Carolina

=Seminaries of the Episcopal Church=
*Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, New Haven, Connecticut
*Bexley Hall - Colgate-Rochester, Rochester, New York
*Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California
*Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
*Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Texas
*General Theological Seminary, New York City
*Nashotah House, Nashotah, Wisconsin
*Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois
*School of Theology at University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
*Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, Ambridge, Pennsylvania
*Virginia Theological Seminary

External links
*http://www.episcopalchurch.org/
*http://www.episcopalchurch.org/gc/
*http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/bcp.htm

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