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unusual facts about Episcopal Church in the United States of America



Albert Jay Nock

He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania (U.S.), to a father who was both a steelworker and an Episcopal priest, and he was raised in Brooklyn, New York.

Anglican Missal

These are the American Canon of 1928 (related to Eucharistic Prayer I in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America), the 1549 Canon as translated and illuminated by Thomas Cranmer, and an English translation of the Roman Canon (Eucharistic Prayer I in modern Roman Catholic missals, called the "Gregorian Canon" in the Anglican Missal).

Audrey Meadows

Her parents, the Rev. Francis James Meadows Cotter and his wife, the former Ida Miller Taylor, had been Episcopal missionaries in Wu-ch'ang, China, where her three elder siblings were born.

Biltmore Village

The village had its own church, which is still in operation today as the Cathedral of All Souls, an Episcopal cathedral.

Charles S. Fairfax

The 7th Baron, Robert Fairfax, died without issue in 1793 and the title descended to an American second cousin, the Rev. Bryan Fairfax (1736–1802), was a priest of the Episcopal Church and rector of parish in Alexandria, who was the son of William Fairfax(1691–1757) of Belvoir and Deborah Clarke (1707–1747).

Charles V. Willie

Willie is a lay member of the Episcopal Church in the United State, a former member of its Executive Council and is a past vice president of the House of Deputies, one of two houses, with the House of Bishops, that makes up the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

Christchurch School

Christchurch School is a college-preparatory boarding school in Christchurch, Virginia, founded in 1921 by the Episcopal Church Diocese of Virginia and highly regarded for its dynamic, place-based Great Journeys Begin at the River program.

Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold is the daughter of Frank Griswold, the 25th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.

Episcopal Diocese of Western New York

The Episcopal Diocese of Western New York, is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America with jurisdiction over the counties of Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming in western New York.

Francis Makemie

At the call of Colonel William Stevens, an Episcopalian from Rehobeth, Maryland, he was sent as a missionary to America, arriving in Maryland in 1683.

Henry N. Parsley, Jr.

In January 2006, Bishop Parsley was nominated for Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, and came in second in balloting to Katharine Jefferts Schori during voting at the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in Columbus, Ohio.

Interfaith worship spaces

Ann Arbor, Michigan, St. Clare of Assisi Episcopal church and Temple Beth Emeth share a building called Genesis of Ann Arbor.

Jehu Glancy Jones

He attended Kenyon College, studied theology and was ordained to the ministry of the Episcopal Church in 1835 and withdrew in 1841.

Jubilee College State Park

Jubilee College, and the frontier community that supported it, was founded in 1839 by Episcopal bishop Philander Chase.

Leonidas Polk

He also served as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana and was for that reason known as The Fighting Bishop.

Main Street Theater

Founding Artistic Director Rebecca Greene Udden enlisted a collection of theater professionals in a temporary home at Autry House, the Episcopal Diocese's community center on Main Street—hence, the new group's name.

Melverley

It is thought that the design of St Peter's may have inspired the architecture of St Andrew's Episcopalian church in Newcastle, Maine.

Missionary Bishop

In the Episcopal Church, the House of Bishops may, according to canon law, establish a mission in a geographic area that is not already governed by a diocesan bishop or by a church in communion with the Episcopal Church and appoint a missionary bishop to give oversight to that area.

O Little Town of Bethlehem

The text was written by Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), an Episcopal priest, Rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia.

Peter Niedmann

Some of his hymns and service music have been included in recent Episcopal and UCC hymnals.

Ron Penfound

He had originally planned to become an Episcopal priest, but then transferred to study broadcasting at the University of Denver.

Saint Augustine's Prayer Book

Saint Augustine's Prayer Book is an Anglo-Catholic devotional book published for members of the Episcopal Church by the Order of the Holy Cross, an Anglican monastic community.

The Sandpiper

Now with a third incident a judge (Torin Thatcher) orders her to send the boy to an Episcopal boarding school where Dr. Edward Hewitt (Burton) is headmaster, and his wife Claire (Eva Marie Saint) teaches.

Valle Crucis, North Carolina

There was scattered settlement in the region in the 1840s when an Episcopal missionary, Levi Silliman Ives, came to the area.

Walter Rauschenbusch

Rauschenbusch is honored together with Washington Gladden and Jacob Riis with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) on July 2.

William Whittingham Lyman

He helped found Grace Episcopal Church of St. Helena, California.


see also

Bishop Robinson

Bishop Gene Robinson, bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America

Diocese of Lexington

Episcopal Diocese of Lexington, a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America

Jamal Harrison Bryant

He is the son of Bishop John Richard Bryant, Senior Bishop and Presiding Prelate of the Fourth Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America.