Episcopal Church
Episcopal Church (from gr. / Lat. Episcopalis, " episcopal ") is a denominational designation within the Christian ecumenism. It features churches that are not Roman Catholic, but unlike the Protestant churches in the Lutheran and Reformed embossing have preserved in the continuity of apostolic succession the historic tripartite Office ( bishop, priest, deacon ), and this view of their self- understanding as essential. Episcopal churches take them, even in liturgy and doctrine, a middle position between Catholicism and Protestantism.
In fact, the designation distinguishing feature of which emerged from the Church of England Anglican Communion, whose member churches outside of England to Episcopal Church of ... name (see List of Anglican churches).
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- Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands
- Old Catholic Church in Germany
- Old Catholic Church of Austria
- Old Catholic Church in the Czech Republic
- Polish Catholic Church
- Catholic Church of Switzerland
- Old Catholic Church of the Mariavites
- Polish National Catholic Church in the United States and Canada
- Episcopal Church of the United States of America
- Scottish Episcopal Church, Scotland
- Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil, Brazil
- Episcopal Church of Cuba
- Episcopal Church of Jerusalem and the Middle East
- Episcopal Church of the Philippines
- Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain
- Episcopal Church of the Sudan
- Lusitanian Church of Portugal
- Mar Thoma Church in India
- Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain
- Philippine Independent Church
- Episcopal Missionary Church, United States
- Traditional Protestant Episcopal Church, United States
- Southern Episcopal Church, United States
- United Episcopal Church of North America, United States
- Free Protestant Episcopal Church, United States
- Reformed Episcopal Church, United States, Brazil, India, Germany
- African Methodist Episcopal Church, United States
- African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, United States
- Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, United States
- Christian Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, United States
- Charismatic Episcopal Church
- Community Evangelical - Episcopal parishes