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Episcopal Church (United States)
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The Episcopal Church (TEC) is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere.
It is a mainline Christian denomination divided into nine provinces. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Michael Bruce Curry, the first African-American bishop to serve in that position.
In 2018[update] the Episcopal Church had 1,835,931 baptized members, of whom 1,676,349 were in the United States. In 2011[update] it was the nation's 14th largest denomination.[1]
References
- ↑ "Trends continue in church membership growth or decline, reports 2011 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches", News from the National Council of Churches (National Council of Churches News Service), February 14, 2011, http://www.ncccusa.org/news/110210yearbook2011.html, retrieved December 29, 2011, "14. The Episcopal Church, 2,026,343 members, down 2.48 percent." Note: The number of members given here is the total number of baptized members in 2012 (cf. Baptized Members by Province and Diocese 2002–2013).