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Guppy said she learned that members of her Episcopalian church, St. Stephen’s Hollywood, had been detained during the raid of the Ambiance Apparel factory in downtown L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2025
He used to present as a staid mainline Episcopalian, but now he denounces that church and speaks of being “mauled by demons.”
From Salon ● May 19, 2025
He was a spiritual man himself, a practicing Episcopalian, but humble about it.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2023
A 200-year-old Episcopal seminary in Virginia has thrown a financial lifeline to a struggling Episcopalian school in New York City — in part to head off a looming, critical shortage of clergy in the denomination.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
He was an Episcopalian priest, and his wife, Julie, was a music teacher.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
Dr. Hewet was an episcopalian divine, permitted to preach at St. Gregory's, and had long been one of the most active and useful of the royal agents in the vicinity of the capital.
From The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Belloc, Hilaire
It has one good Hotel, several respectable lodging-houses: a neat episcopalian church, and an Independent chapel.
An episcopalian clergyman is stationed at this place, and ministers of other denominations occasionally officiate in the district.
From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by West, John
Now I'll tell my father, get his episcopalian benediction, and wire the news to Lucy and the mater.
From The Bishop's Secret by Hume, Fergus
So here in the episcopalian palace of Beorminster were three people, each one masking his real feelings in intercourse with the others.
From The Bishop's Secret by Hume, Fergus
The mainline is a collection of long-established Protestant denominations: the Episcopalians, United Methodists, Presbyterians and so on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Mr. Harris started volunteering 15 years ago at the front desk of St. David’s Medical Center, an Austin hospital founded by Episcopalians.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
The formerly mighty mainline Protestant denominations, like the Episcopalians and Methodists, have shrunk and lost influence.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2021
For years, stories have appeared in media outlets about how many of the more theologically moderate denominations like Episcopalians and the United Church of Christ have suffered staggering losses in membership.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2021
The Episcopalians, the Roman Catholics, the Presbyterians and Methodists have by far the largest hold on the people, while Independents and Baptists are fairly numerous and influential.
From Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by Willoughby, Howard
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