We are rich and we are poor, we are high church and we are low church, we are conservative and we are liberal, we are doctors and we are shoe salesmen, we are the Episcopal Church. Every Sunday you will find Episcopalians throughout the world standing, sitting, and kneeling in worship of our mutual Lord Jesus Christ. The Episcopal Church, though diverse, gathers around the Eucharist, the Bible, an
d the Book of Common Prayer which links us all as one people in the Kingdom of God. The Episcopal Church in the United States was founded in 1785 after the Revolutionary War severed ties with Great Britain and the Church of England. We began small but through God's grace and the our persistent nature the Episcopal Church spread throughout the new nation and across her borders into the world. The Episcopal Church currently consists of 109 dioceses divided into 9 provinces located in the United States, Columbia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Venezuela, the Virgin Islands, the Navajoland Area Mission, and the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe. The Episcopal Church is a member of the Anglican Communion, a gathering of independent churches who trace their origins to the Church of England, and as such is the third largest Christian tradition in the world. As Anglicans we recognize the Archbishop of Canterbury, currently the Most Reverend and Right Honorable Justin Welby, as our moral and spiritual leader and symbol of unity for all Anglicans. As Episcopalians we look to the Most Reverend Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop and Primate, as our Chief Pastor and our Christian voice to the world. What we believe
We are first and foremost Christians and as Christians we are believers and followers of Jesus Christ. We do not pretend to have all the answers about God but what we do know we confess in the two historic creeds of our church, the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed. These two creeds of the Early Church unite us with Christians from all around the world from the beginnings of Christianity until the return of Christ.
