The new ordinations also circumvent centuries-old protocol, said Jan Nunley, a priest who is deputy director of the Episcopal News Service. |
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Under the proposal, Lutherans would also accept the historic line of bishops within the Episcopal Church. |
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The president and first lady attended St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington this morning. |
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This way of understanding the sacramentality of sacramental rites is not idiosyncratic, least of all in the Episcopal Church. |
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From Reform Judaism to the Episcopal Church, religious bodies across the nation are grappling with the same issue. |
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In large part, to talk about clergy deployment in the Episcopal church is to talk about pastoring congregations. |
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A friend who is a novice in an Episcopal religious order recently told me that she has no taste now for books of contemporary spirituality. |
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Union between the Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches has been in a palpitant state of slow motion for six years. |
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He is the first prison inmate to become a candidate for ordination to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church. |
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I read that you were the youngest vestryman in the history of your Episcopal church. |
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Clearly, many Lutherans see full communion with the Episcopal Church as a costly decision that threatens Lutheran identity. |
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The Reverend William Matheus, another member, was assistant rector at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, a bulwark of progressive social causes. |
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The organization constituted itself in January and elected as moderator the head of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. |
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I remember many years ago attending the service when a friend was ordained as a deacon in her Episcopal church. |
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She is married to the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and speaks and writes frequently on charisms in the Episcopal Church. |
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He changed his denominational affiliation from his parents' Episcopal faith to his wife's Methodism. |
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In the end, the episcopate came to the United States through the nonjuring bishops of the Episcopal Church in Scotland. |
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He is now a Congregationalist because his former Episcopal Church refused to surrender land it owned on Lake Champlain for a public bike path. |
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At first glance, the statement yesterday from bishops in the Episcopal Church USA looks pretty good. |
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The future of Anglicanism may depend upon the American Episcopal Church's ability to find a way out of its terrible constraints. |
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I flew from here to Indianapolis to address a conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. |
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The 30-minute worship draws upon an Anglican prayer service from New Zealand, Lutheran or Episcopal compline, and Holden Evening Prayer. |
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If they decide to split off from the Episcopal Church as now constituted, these groups have an excellent opportunity to survive and prosper. |
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Jeffrey Steenson is Canon to the Ordinary in the Episcopal diocese of the Rio Grande. |
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While in Golden, he was ordained an Episcopal minister and later served residents in Colorado's mining camps during his scientific excursions. |
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This book is intended primarily for lay study groups in Episcopal parishes and Lutheran congregations. |
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So begins one of my favorite prayers, from the service for compline in the Episcopal prayer book. |
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Alan Jones is Dean of Grace Episcopal Cathedral in San Francisco and an honorary canon of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres. |
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I left the Episcopal Church when I finally faced up to my own spiritual mediocrity, so cleverly disguised as a neo-Jansenist pose against an Anglo-Catholic background. |
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A lay reader in the Episcopal Church, Wilbur has said that most of what he knows of scripture comes through exposure to the Book of Common Prayer. |
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Brooks was prominent in the Broad Church Movement in the Episcopal Church. |
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In the meantime, he serves as an acolyte at Grace Episcopal Church, and has had the honor of carrying the cross. |
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Studying on a scholarship from an American church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, he stayed to work at the college as a registrar and teacher. |
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Lutherans had agreed to the Episcopal practice of ordination by a bishop. |
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The Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway has been voted in as the new Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church by the Episcopal Synod earlier in the week. |
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Yet if the crisis is indeed missiological at root, there is hope for renewal, just insofar as the Episcopal Church moves toward becoming a more faithful mission companion. |
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The new rector of the Scottish Episcopal Church in Orkney, Reverend Alison Duff, was installed into her charge at a service in Kirkwall on Wednesday night. |
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He explained to the defendant that he attended Episcopal and Lutheran services. |
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In the past, the Episcopal Church's loose theology has allowed liberal and conservative parishioners, priests, and bishops to avoid major schisms. |
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He was an ordained Episcopal priest who wrote a great deal about Taoism. |
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Because of its roots in the established Church of England, the Episcopal Church has long sought to play an establishmentarian role in the United States. |
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Established in 1785, the diocese was one of the nine original dioceses of the Episcopal Church. |
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The Scottish Episcopal Church is the member church of the Anglican Communion in Scotland. |
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At the local level, there are 6,473 Episcopal congregations, each of which elects a vestry or bishop's committee. |
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The Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe and the Navajoland Area Mission are jurisdictions similar to a diocese. |
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The National Cathedral is the seat of the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church as well as the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. |
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In addition, the Presiding Bishop directs the Episcopal Church Center, the national administrative headquarters of the denomination. |
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The center of Episcopal teaching is the life and resurrection of Jesus Christ. |
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The full catechism is included in the Book of Common Prayer and is posted on the Episcopal website. |
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A broad spectrum of theological views is represented within the Episcopal Church. |
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Some Episcopal members or theologians hold evangelical positions, affirming the authority of scripture over all. |
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The Episcopal Church website glossary defines the sources of authority as a balance between scripture, tradition, and reason. |
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Still, no Episcopal priest is required to perform the new liturgies, even in dioceses in which they are permitted. |
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There are about 60 trust funds administered by the Episcopal Church which offer scholarships to young people affiliated with the church. |
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The Episcopal Church was a founding member of the Consultation on Church Union and participates in its successor, Churches Uniting in Christ. |
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It is the official publisher for the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States. |
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They also endorse an Episcopal polity, appointing the English monarch as Supreme Governor of the Church of England to replace the Bishop of Rome. |
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These conflicts led to further schism, for example in the creation of the Reformed Episcopal Church in North America. |
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Episcopal is also commonly used to distinguish between the various organizational structures of denominations. |
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The Scottish Episcopal Church was formally incorporated in 1712, and it more recently became part of the Anglican Communion. |
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By this document the full communion between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Episcopal Church was established. |
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National Episcopal Conferences are another development of the Second Vatican Council. |
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The quadrilateral had its genesis in an 1870 essay by the American Episcopal priest William Reed Huntington. |
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This movement is primarily active in parts of the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada. |
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Since 1785, there have been disputes within the Episcopal Church that have led to departures of clergy and congregations. |
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In 1992, the Episcopal Missionary Church was established after its leaders first attempted to reform ECUSA from within. |
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In 2003, the Episcopal Church's General Convention consented to the Diocese of New Hampshire's election of Gene Robinson as its bishop. |
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However, it stopped short of recommending discipline against the Episcopal Church or the Anglican Church of Canada. |
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The Episcopal Church in the United States of America numbers, rather than names, its nine provinces. |
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The only recognized group in America that is in communion with the UU is the Episcopal Church. |
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Since 1960 the church has been in full communion with the Episcopal Church in the United States, and through it, the entire Anglican Communion. |
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Some factions formally joined other denominations including the Episcopal Church and the American Unitarians. |
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In August 2003 the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire elected an openly gay and partnered priest, Gene Robinson, as bishop. |
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However, it stopped short of recommending discipline against the Episcopal Church or Anglican Church of Canada. |
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In 2014, the Episcopal Church of Costa Rica, a diocese of the province, took steps toward welcoming the LGBTQ community. |
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This was done so that ELCA ministers ordained by these ELCA bishops could also serve in the Episcopal Church. |
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In 1874 the FCE made contact with the newly organised Reformed Episcopal Church in North America. |
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The two churches lived in parallel until 1927, when the Free Church of England united with the UK branch of the Reformed Episcopal Church. |
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The FCE is in communion with the Reformed Episcopal Church, which itself is now a member of the Anglican Church in North America. |
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It was founded in 1873 in New York City by George David Cummins, formerly a bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. |
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The founding of the Reformed Episcopal Church followed a 1873 controversy about ecumenical activity. |
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Some in the Protestant Episcopal Church saw Cummins' decision as schismatic. |
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Many of the Canadian Reformed Episcopal Churches joined the United Church at its founding. |
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The Reformed Episcopal Church now has three churches in Canada, two in British Columbia and one in Ontario. |
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By 1910 there were 28 ministers and 1,990 communicant members constituting the Reformed Episcopal Church in that country. |
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In 1927, the Reformed Episcopal Church in England merged with the Free Church of England. |
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The Reformed Episcopal Seminary itself is one of the first, if not the first, seminaries to be racially inclusive. |
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Early leaders of the Church, in lectures and sermons, warned against Ritualism as a denominational proclivity in the Episcopal Church. |
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The Reformed Episcopal Church has three seminaries, operating at four sites. |
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The Continuing Anglican movement originated in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and the Anglican Church of Canada. |
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The Episcopal Church is governed according to episcopal polity with its own system of canon law. |
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The bishops and those that followed them became the Scottish Episcopal Church. |
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The Episcopal Church was active in the Social Gospel movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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Some, for example the Church of Ireland, the Scottish and American Episcopal churches, and some other associated churches have a separate name. |
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Thus they formed their own dioceses and national church, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in a mostly amicable separation. |
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This controversy produced the Free Church of England and, in the United States and Canada, the Reformed Episcopal Church. |
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Since the late 1990s a number have appeared in smaller communities, often as a result of a division in the town's existing Episcopal churches. |
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The resulting property law case, ultimately decided in favor of the mainline diocese, was a test for Episcopal churches nationwide. |
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He subsequently left the Quakers, joined the Scottish Episcopal Church, and eventually married Syme's daughter, Agnes. |
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The Church of England had not yet appointed a United States bishop to what would become the Protestant Episcopal Church in America. |
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The Wesley brothers are also commemorated on 3 March in the Calendar of Saints of the Episcopal Church and on 24 May in the Anglican calendar. |
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He is remembered liturgically on 13 June by the Episcopal Church, with a provisional feast day as adopted at the 2009 General Convention. |
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Lewis is commemorated on 22 November in the church calendar of the Episcopal Church. |
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In a 2012 radio interview, she said that she was a member of the Scottish Episcopal Church, a province of the Anglican Communion. |
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Handel is honoured with a feast day on 28 July in the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church, with Johann Sebastian Bach and Henry Purcell. |
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The Diocese of Edinburgh of the Scottish Episcopal Church has over 50 churches, half of them in the city. |
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Members of the Episcopal clergy were required to give oaths of allegiance to the reigning Hanoverian dynasty. |
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Methodism was brought to China in the autumn of 1847 by the Methodist Episcopal Church. |
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As with the primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Archbishop of Wales serves concurrently as one of the six diocesan bishops. |
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It is an independent member of the Anglican Communion as are the Church of Ireland and the Scottish Episcopal Church. |
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He died in 1856 and was buried in St John's Episcopal Churchyard at the east end of Princes Street in Edinburgh. |
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Scotland's third largest church, the Scottish Episcopal Church has more than 350 local congregations. |
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According to the Mission Atlas Project, 85,000 affiliates identify with the Scottish Episcopal Church. |
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The current Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church is the Most Reverend Mark Strange. |
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The Scottish Episcopalians Act of 1711 protected the Episcopal Church, which marked its virtual incorporation as a distinct society. |
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He became the first bishop of the American Episcopal Church after being refused consecration by Church of England clergy. |
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The bishops of the Episcopal Church are direct successors of the prelates consecrated to Scottish sees at the Restoration. |
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The centre of teachings of the Scottish Episcopal Church is the life and resurrection of Jesus Christ. |
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Both are buried in the churchyard of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity at Pitlochry. |
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The Scottish Episcopal Church, the Church of Scotland, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of England also have parishes dedicated to him. |
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For some years, Mungo fixed his Episcopal seat at Hoddom in Dumfriesshire, evangelising thence the district of Galloway. |
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The Huguenot Society of America maintains Manakin Episcopal Church in Virginia as an historic shrine with occasional services. |
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The senior bishop of the seven diocesan bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church bears the truncated title Primus from primus inter pares. |
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The current presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Michael Bruce Curry, the first African American bishop to serve in that position. |
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The Episcopal Church is an apostolic church, tracing its bishops back to the apostles via holy orders. |
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In 1789, The Episcopal Church thus became the first Anglican Province outside the British Isles. |
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In 1856 the first society for African Americans in the Episcopal Church was founded by James Theodore Holly. |
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However, he was consecrated by the American Church Missionary Society, an Evangelical Episcopal branch of the Church. |
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The convention was disrupted by black militants who demanded that the Episcopal Church hear their concerns. |
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Episcopal Church from key positions in their global fellowship in response to the Church changing its canons on marriage. |
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Gene Robinson, some members of a number of congregations and six dioceses left the Episcopal Church. |
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The Constitution of the national Episcopal Church provides that this court must be composed only of bishops. |
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In the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, the equivalent is General Convention. |
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That same year, aged 27, Evans married Sarah Tomlinson, daughter of a local farmer, in Old Swedes' Episcopal Church in Wilmington. |
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I knew that while the Episcopal Church is one of America's most liberal denominations, the Anglican Communion is overwhelmingly conservative. |
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Picture what the Episcopal Bishop Claude Payne calls the apostolates of the laity, the clergy, and the judicatories. |
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A longtime volunteer at All Saints Episcopal Church, she is enjoying retirement with her Welsh Corgis, Duke and Misty. |
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In the Valley of the Yangtze is the memoir of author Helen Roberts Thomas, born on Chinese soil to American Episcopal missionaries. |
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The Leicester Department of Public Works provides all the mulch each season and Carl Wicklund of Christ Episcopal Church does the rototilling. |
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Meanwhile on the churchly front, he served as canonical counselor and defender of the first Episcopal women priests irregularly ordained. |
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He retired in 2013 as the IX Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire. |
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Mary's Episcopal Church in Eugene for Martha Merwine Hance of Lowell, who died Dec. |
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Herman Hollerith IV, a member of the Saint Paul's College board and bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia. |
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In 1877, in response to a petition from REC sympathizers in England, the REC's Fifth General Council acted to establish the Reformed Episcopal Church in that country. |
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In supporting the Spanish Evangelical Church, the Episcopal Synod joined LGBT advocacy groups by protesting its removal from the Evangelical Council of Madrid. |
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After the Synod, Bishop David Chillingworth, the Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, gave his assessment of the situation regarding the change in the marriage canon. |
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The Province of South East Asia broke communion with the Episcopal Church on 20 November 2003, citing Robinson's consecration as the reason for its action. |
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Italian Methodism has its origins in the Italian Free Church, British Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society, and the American Methodist Episcopal Mission. |
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In 2010, a similar jurisdiction created by the Reformed Episcopal Church and former members and congregations of the Episcopal Church in the USA was officially launched. |
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The conventions of four dioceses of the Episcopal Church voted in 2007 and 2008 to leave that church and to join the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America. |
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A revised version was adopted in 1801 by the US Episcopal Church. |
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The book is composed of material drawn from the proposed 1928 BCP, the 1979 Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and the Roman Missal. |
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Hyer in 1863, opposed the points mentioned in Hopkins' pamphlet and revealed a startling divide in the Episcopal Church over the issue of slavery. |
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The highest legislative body of the Episcopal Church is the triennial General Convention, consisting of the House of Deputies and the House of Bishops. |
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In 1965, there were 880,000 children in Episcopal Sunday School programs. |
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Paul's Cathedral is the seat of the Scottish Episcopal Diocese of Brechin. |
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In 2013, the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti was the largest single diocese, with 84,301 baptized members, which constitute slightly over half of the church's foreign membership. |
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Litigation has largely centered around church properties, with the Episcopal leadership asserting ownership of buildings occupied by departing congregations. |
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When the American Civil War began in 1861, Episcopalians in the South formed the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America. |
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He was the first bishop of the Episcopal Church ordained and consecrated in America and the fifth Bishop consecrated for the Episcopal Church in the United States. |
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The development of the Protestant Episcopal Church provides an example of how Americans in the early republic maintained important cultural ties with England. |
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The second largest are the Methodists, the largest denominations are the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. |
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On September 19, 2009, at six o'clock in the evening, Sarah Elizabeth Bynum and William Alexander Roman were united in marriage at Grace Episcopal Church in Paducah, Kentucky. |
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Byrd is honoured together with John Merbecke and Thomas Tallis with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the US Episcopal Church on 21 November. |
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The Methodist Episcopal Church, South had recently separated over the issue of slavery, and southern Presbyterians would do so shortly thereafter. |
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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. |
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A fine example of an Episcopal debate over the use of the cross can be found in the pamphlet Puseyite Developments, or Notices of the New York Ecclesiologists. |
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The Episcopal seat of the Bishop of Bath and Wells is now in the Cathedral Church of Saint Andrew in the city of Wells, having previously been at Bath Abbey. |
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In June 2013, Toua Vang became the first Hmong man in the world to be ordained an Episcopal priest, and is now pastor of the only Hmong-majority Episcopal church anywhere. |
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The Anglican Use is permitted under the United States Pastoral Provision of 1980 in several parishes of that country that have left the Episcopal Church. |
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The Scottish Episcopal Church has been involved in Scottish politics. |
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The Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the presiding bishop of the Scottish Episcopal Church, is elected by the episcopal synod from among its members. |
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In the past 30 years the Scottish Episcopal Church has taken a stand on various issues including economic justice, the ordination of women and inclusion. |
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In this way, it can be said that the Episcopal Church in the United States owes as much of its origins to the Scottish Episcopal Church as to the Church of England. |
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The Scottish Episcopal Church was previously called the Episcopal Church in Scotland, reflecting its role as the Scottish province of the Anglican Communion. |
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Inverness Cathedral, dedicated to St Andrew, is a cathedral of the Scottish Episcopal Church and seat of the ordinary of the Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness. |
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A residential college and an Episcopal seminary at Yale University also bear Berkeley's name, as does the Berkeley Library at Trinity College, Dublin. |
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Both the Diocese of the Great Lakes, and the Anglican Episcopal Church have subsequently merged with the United Episcopal Church of North America. |
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The Episcopal Church, along with other Anglican churches, also opposes capital punishment and its leaders have been pushing to abolish capital punishment. |
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He is remembered in the Church of England with a Lesser Festival on 30 August, and on the liturgical calendar of the United States Episcopal Church on 29 August. |
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In 2006, Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Episcopal Bishop of Nevada, became the first woman to become the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. |
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To reduce their influence the Scots Parliament guaranteed Presbyterian governance of the Church by law, excluding what became the Scottish Episcopal Church. |
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Thus, it is an Episcopal Church, and its members are called Episcopalians. |
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A suffragan bishop was consecrated for the Anglican Episcopal Church in late 2008 by its presiding bishop and three bishops of the Diocese of the Great Lakes. |
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The latter church was a result of union between the Methodist Protestant Church and the northern and southern factions of the Methodist Episcopal Church. |
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In a much larger split, in 1845 at Louisville, the churches of the slaveholding states left the Methodist Episcopal Church and formed The Methodist Episcopal Church, South. |
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Upper and Lower Canada were both part of the New York Episcopal Methodist Conference until 1810 when they were transferred to the newly formed Genesee Conference. |
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Methodism was also spread in Germany through the missionary work of the American Methodist Episcopal Church, which began in 1849 in Bremen, soon spreading to Saxony. |
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The Reformed Episcopal Church was originally divided into four synods. |
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