Episcopal
- Grew from
- Anglican
- From
- 1789 AD
- Origin
- The United States
- Confession
- The Thirty-Nine Articles 1571 AD
The Anglican church in the United States, which independence left in an impossible position: its clergy had sworn allegiance to a Crown the country had just rejected. Samuel Seabury was consecrated in Aberdeen in 1784 by Scottish bishops who required no such oath, and the church organised itself in 1789 with bishops but no established status.
What marks it out
Bishops elected by clergy and laity together in convention, rather than appointed by a Crown or a synod — the first Anglican province anywhere to be governed that way, and the model the rest of the communion later followed. The Book of Common Prayer in an American revision, taking its eucharistic prayer from the Scottish rite in acknowledgement of 1784.
Alongside it
Also from Anglican.
In the record
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1534–1559 AD Reform
The English Reformation
England separated from Rome under Henry VIII, then took a reformed doctrinal settlement under Edward VI and Elizabeth I while keeping bishops and liturgy.
This body appears in the history but does not carry recorded doctrinal positions here, so it is absent from the comparison panels.