The Episcopal Church (TEC), also known as the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), is the Province of the Anglican Communion in the United States, Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe. The Episcopal Church of the Philippines was part of this province from 1901, and was also a missionary district, until it was granted full auto...
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The Episcopal Church (TEC), also known as the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), is the Province of the Anglican Communion in the United States, Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe. The Episcopal Church of the Philippines was part of this province from 1901, and was also a missionary district, until it was granted full autonomy and declared an autocephalous province of the Anglican Communion on May 1, 1990.
The Church was organized shortly after the American Revolution when it was forced to break with the Church of England on penalty of treason as Church of England clergy were required to swear allegiance to the British monarch, and became, in the words of the 1990 report of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Group on the Episcopate, "the first Anglican Province outside the British Isles". Today it is divided into nine provinces and has dioceses outside the U.S. in...
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