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The Episcopal Church is an independent church and a member of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Its origin is in the planting of the Church of England in the colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries.
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The earliest known celebrations of the Eucharist on North America were near San Francisco in 1579 by Sir Francis Drake’s chaplain and in 1607 at Jamestown, Virginia, an English settlement. Since those days our liturgy retains ancient structure and traditions, and is celebrated in many languages. We uphold the Bible and worship with the Book of Common Prayer.
At the end of the Revolutionary War American Episcopalians became independent from the Church of England. The Episcopal Church has been organized on three levels: with a General Convention on the national level, individual dioceses, and parishes.
Today the Episcopal Church has members in the United States, as well as in Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Haiti, Honduras, Micronesia, Taiwan, Venezuela, and the Virgin Islands.