Episcopal Church in the USA
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Episcopal Church in the USA or Protestant Episcopal Church. The Anglican Church in the United States. Its organization dates from the consecration of Samuel Seabury as first bishop in 1784.
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Analysis: Episcopal churches are in dispute over church authority, doctrine and the 2003 consecration of an openly gay man as the bishop of New Hampshire
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 4/27/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...27-2005 Analysis: Episcopal churches are in dispute over church authority, doctrine...away from the national Episcopal Church. The separation...diocese. Although Christ Church is one of 50 Episcopal churches in the state, it provided...
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Two Episcopal churches, two paths in Boulder, Colorado St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, 1 February 2004 St. John's Episcopal Church, 27 June 2004
Magazine article from: Anglican and Episcopal History; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Two Episcopal churches, two paths in Boulder, Colorado St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, 1 February 2004 St...congregation into the Reformed Episcopal Church.) Over the past decade or so, the two churches have spe
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Analysis: Union approved between Lutheran and Episcopal churches
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 7/9/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...between Lutheran and Episcopal churches Host...for two American churches. Leaders of the Episcopal Church meeting in Denver...that once the two churches develop closer...delegates to the Episcopal church Convention will...
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 "Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)")
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EPISCOPAL CHURCHES VOTE TO BREAK AWAY THE CONSECRATION OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP HAS CREATED A RIFT IN THE DENOMINATION.(FRONT)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI); 12/18/2006; 700+ words
; ...fully intend to assert the church's canonical and legal rights...calling it a "sad day for the church." Losing all the conservative churches could cost the Virginia diocese...its 90,000 members. The Episcopal Church, the U.S. wing of the...
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Breakaway Episcopal churches still gather
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze; 9/6/2004; ; 525 words
; ...All Saints' Church in Long Beach, one of three Episcopal churches that recently...an Anglican church in Uganda...split from the Episcopal Church in...resolved not in church but in court...Aug. 22 at Episcopal churches throughout...
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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TWO EPISCOPAL CHURCHES UNITE.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 6/15/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. Bishop Linsey...the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. He has made the merger...representatives of both churches approved an historic...proposed that the new church be called the Christian...wanted the word ''Episcopal'' to stay in ...
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 "Morning Call (Allentown, PA)")
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Area Episcopal churches in global debate: Leaders of world organization issued ultimatum on gays.
Newspaper article from: Morning Call (Allentown, PA); 3/16/2007; 700+ words
; ...throughout the U.S. Episcopal Church, including...from the worldwide church. For Marshall, that...communion's 38 member churches runs counter to the...head of the U.S. Episcopal Church. Jefferts Schori...out of 111 in the Episcopal Church, have rejected ...
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EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN, EPISCOPAL CHURCHES MAY MOVE CLOSER Ecumenical unity is goal Church leaders say vote will have little impact on local Sunday services
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 4/18/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...in Episcopal churches and vice versa. Episcopal bishops would...the Episcopal Church. But there could...churches and Episcopal churches in southern Wisconsin...makes a Lutheran church Lutheran and an Episcopal church Episcopal...
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Episcopal Churches' Breakaway in Va. Evolved Over 30 Years [Correction 1/17/07]
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/4/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...ministry at The Falls Church, said some members...God. Unlike many Episcopal churches nationally, neither...Truro nor The Falls Church was active in supporting...mainstream within the Episcopal Church," said...Truro and The Falls Church adopted a conservative...to more liberal ...
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Episcopal churches withhold money after gay issues votes [Corrected 09/03/03]
Newspaper article from: The Gazette; 8/30/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...000 from his church this year, instead...000. Like other Episcopal churches, Grace and St...Dioceses in the Episcopal Church. Grace and St...s is one of 101 churches in the organization...Colorado Springs church on the list is...reason Colorado Episcopal Bishop Jerry ...
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African Methodist Episcopal Church
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH (AMEC), the...Many Methodist churches, especially in...discrimination within the church prompted Richard...George's Methodist Episcopal Church, Philadelphia...
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Episcopal Church
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...episcopacy and a national church. The new ecclesiastical...Protestant Episcopal Church, a name approved in...Society was established. Episcopal churches were founded by settlers...During the Civil War the church was necessarily disunited...formed the Reformed Episcopal ...
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Spiritualist Episcopal Church
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Spiritualist Episcopal Church One of the most important Spiritualist churches in the United States...the Spiritualist Episcopal Church was founded in...Association of Churches. Reincarnation...present status of the church is unknown. Sources...Spiritualist Episcopal ...
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Episcopal Church in the United States of America
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Episcopal Church in the United States of America. The...Canterbury . Previously called the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America...of Independence that the Protestant Episcopal Church became an autonomous organization...
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Episcopal Church of Scotland
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Episcopal Church of Scotland. Scotland...consecration of the United States episcopal church's first bishop...and adoption of the English church's Thirty-Nine Articles...dioceses by 1837, a doubling of churches and clergy by 1857, a Church Council with lay congregational...
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