Episcopal Church
Episcopal Church may refer to various churches in the Anglican, Methodist, and Open Episcopal traditions.
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An episcopal church has bishops in its organisational structure (see episcopal polity). Episcopalian is a synonym for Anglican in the United States, Scotland, and several other locations.
Anglicanism
Anglican Communion
- Episcopal Church (United States) in the United States, Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe
- Scottish Episcopal Church
- Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil (Brazil)
- Iglesia Episcopal de Cuba
- Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East
- Episcopal Church in the Philippines
- Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church
- Episcopal Church of the Sudan
Continuing Anglican Movement
- Anglican Episcopal Church, U.S.
- Episcopal Missionary Church, U.S.
- Traditional Protestant Episcopal Church, U.S.
- Southern Episcopal Church, U.S.
- United Episcopal Church of North America, U.S.
- Independent Anglican
- Free Protestant Episcopal Church, North America
- Reformed Episcopal Church, North and South America, Asia, Europe. Now closely associated with some of the Continuing Anglican churches.
Methodism
Methodist
- African Methodist Episcopal Church, U.S.
- African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, North America
- Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, North America
- the former Methodist Episcopal Church, now part of the United Methodist Church
Convergence Movement
See also
- St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India
- Anglicanism
- Continuing Anglican movement
- Convergence Movement
- Church of England
- Church of Ireland
- Episcopal polity
- Lutheranism
- Methodism
- Roman Catholic Church
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Oriental Orthodox Church
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