The Pentecostal Episcopal Church, or PEC, is a Christian denomination or church representing the Convergence Movement—also known as the Ancient-Future Faith Movement or Paleo-Orthodoxy—where we are Pentecostal, Evangelical, and Sacramental to the glory of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, Blessed Trinity. Accordingly within our episcopally-minded gathering, we have churches and
ministries celebrating the body and blood of Christ in broad and low church settings throughout the United States of America and the Caribbean, West Africa, and elsewhere. Founded by the Presiding Bishop—Archbishop Rodney Chandler, Sr.—in 2020, the Pentecostal Episcopal Church stands as faithful to the charge of Christ's prayer of unity. Doing so in faithfulness to the Lord, the Pentecostal Episcopal Church—in contrast to the oldest denominations and churches in Convergence such as the Charismatic Episcopal Church and Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches, respectively—gleams to a more African diasporic and Hispanic-Latino cultural background within the Christian faith, not discounting those of other cultural affiliations with an Anglo-Catholic and Evangelical Anglican/Episcopal affinity. This means as Convergence, those within the Pentecostal Episcopal Church may be found as more expressive than others in both praise and worship, and the celebration of the Eucharist. Please understand, it does not, however, seek to culturally wash away the background or precepts of our Anglican-Episcopalian heritage in Convergence Christianity. The Pentecostal Episcopal Church, likewise in forgoing Celtic Anglicanism as expressed among the great and inspirational broad-high and high church denominations and churches with Charismatic affinities preceding us, also rejects being predominantly low church—only wearing vestments when deemed fitting—as our church is a synthesis of broad and low churchmanship. We do not seek to become Anglo-Catholics with Charismatic-Pentecostal emphasis, nor do we seek to become low church Protestants of any variety with a minor high church emphasis where desired, and seeing ritualism as vain. The Pentecostal Episcopal Church also seeks to be solely composed of dioceses and societies in alignment with its mission, forgoing the establishment of provinces with varying principles in contrast with others in the movement, respecting them as they labor for Christ's prayer of unity in their own manner, as we perform our own great labor to the glory of the Kingdom.
