Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States

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1. The American segment of the Anglican Communion; an alternate name for this church is the Episcopal Church. The Episcopal Church was part of the Church of England before the American Revolution but became independent afterward.

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The “Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States” is the organization of the Anglican Communion in the American colonies before the separation.

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His extensive acquirements, and fondness for accurate investigation procured for him the appointment of "Historigrapher of the Church," which was conferred upon him in 1838, with a view to his preparing a faithful "Ecclesiastical History, reaching from the Apostles' time, to the formation of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States."

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American Church, The.—The name, and one that is growing in popularity, that is generally given to the body legally known as "The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America."

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It is the name given to the handsome building which is the headquarters of "The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America."

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The legal title of this important society is, "The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America."

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