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	Episcopal Church
		The subsequent history of the Episcopal church is largely that of its expansion with the growth of the United States in territory and population, and of revisions of polity, laws, and liturgy.
		Seeking to resolve the struggle, the Episcopal church established a polity in which a democratic, lay dominated church structure was set in tension with the aristocratic, episcopally dominated government structure.
		The character of the Episcopal church was influenced during its early years by the struggle between the Low church party, led by William White, the first bishop of Pennsylvania, and a High church party, led by Samuel Seabury, bishop of Connecticut.
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	Episcopal Church
		The subsequent history of the Episcopal church is largely that of its expansion with the growth of the United States in territory and population, and of revisions of polity, laws, and liturgy.
		Seeking to resolve the struggle, the Episcopal church established a polity in which a democratic, lay dominated church structure was set in tension with the aristocratic, episcopally dominated government structure.
		The character of the Episcopal church was influenced during its early years by the struggle between the Low church party, led by William White, the first bishop of Pennsylvania, and a High church party, led by Samuel Seabury, bishop of Connecticut.
	mb-soft.com /believe/text/episcopa.htm (594 words)

	Episcopal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Churches that are members of the Anglican Communion are episcopal churches in polity, and some are named "Episcopal." However, some Anglican churches do not belong to the Anglican Communion, and not all episcopally-governed churches are Anglican.
		Episcopal churches are churches that use an episcopalian church governance, i.e.
		The word episcopal is derived from the Greek επίσκοπος, transliterated epískopos, which literally means "overseer"; the word, however, is used in religious contexts to refer to a bishop.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Episcopal (454 words)

	Episcopal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Churches that are members of the Anglican Communion are episcopal churches in polity, and some are named "Episcopal." However, some Anglican churches do not belong to the Anglican Communion, and not all episcopally-governed churches are Anglican.
		Episcopal churches are churches that use an episcopalian church governance, i.e.
		The Roman Catholic Church, the Old Catholic Churches (in full communion with, but not members of, the Anglican Communion), and the Eastern Orthodox churches are recognized, and also their bishops, by Anglicans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Episcopal (400 words)

	PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH - LoveToKnow Article on PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
		The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States is governed according to the constitutions and canons adopted in 1789, and from time to time amended by the General GovernConvention, which meets every three years; The meat.
		It inherits from the Church of England, with which it is in communion, its liturgy, polity and spiritual traditions, though it has entire independence in legislation.
		The Church in America is thus a part of the Catholic Church of Christ, with its roots deep in the past and yet a living body with a life of its own, standing for the truth of the Christian religion in the great Republic.
	34.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PR/PROTESTANT_EPISCOPAL_CHURCH.htm (3275 words)

	Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This body maintained its own polity until it merged with the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Protestant Church to form the Methodist Church in 1939, which in turn later (1968) merged with the Evangelical United Brethren to form The United Methodist Church.
		The Methodist Episcopal Church, South was the so-called "Southern Methodist Church" resulting from the split over the issue of slavery in the Methodist Episcopal Church which had been brewing over several years until it came out into the open at a conference held in Louisville, Kentucky in 1844.
		The Methodist Episcopal Church, South is most remembered for its reluctance to oppose slavery and its lack of hospitality toward African Americans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Methodist_Episcopal_Church,_South (524 words)

	Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This body maintained its own polity until it reunited with the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Protestant Church to form the Methodist Church in 1939, which in turn later (1968) merged with the Evangelical United Brethren Church to form The United Methodist Church.
		The Methodist Episcopal Church, South was the so-called "Southern Methodist Church" resulting from the split over the issue of slavery in the Methodist Episcopal Church which had been brewing over several years until it came out into the open at a conference held in Louisville, Kentucky in 1844.
		The Methodist Episcopal Church, South is most remembered for its reluctance to oppose slavery and its lack of hospitality toward African Americans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Methodist_Episcopal_Church,_South (1555 words)

	Titusonenine
		Episcopal Church polity clearly provides for clergy and laity to share in the governance of the church.
		The Church in the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth joins the call of the orthodox bishops at the 74th General Convention to the Primates of the Anglican Communion for intervention in the pastoral emergency created by these schismatic actions of the 74th General Convention.
		The Church in the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth commits itself to funding and supporting those missionary agencies, dioceses, and structures that serve to uphold and propagate the historic Faith and Order, especially in those missionary areas adversely affected by reduced national church resources.
	www.titusonenine.blogspot.com /2003_09_21_titusonenine_archive.html (1555 words)

	DisciplesNews Service
		Members of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) who oppose or are unsure about the new covenant expressed concerns about there being a national organization or structure that would eventually replace their own denomination's polity.
		Churches in Covenant Communion was born out of movement about 25 years ago where Christian churches took a leap from traditional ecumenism toward a new understanding of unity.
		Churches in Covenant Communion or COCU is a proposal adopted in 1988 by the Consultation on Church Union for the nine member churches to share their common life as "The Church of Christ Uniting."
	www.disciples.org /dns/releases95/95d78.htm (622 words)

	Canon Law Homepage
		The Episcopal Church and Early Ecclesiastical Laws of Connecticut, Preceded by a Chapter on The Church in America.
		The Ecclesiastical Law of the Church of England.
		Confirmation, Sacrament of Grace: The theology, practice and law of the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England.
	canonlaw.anglican.org /Section03.htm (622 words)

	Adherents.com
		and, in the U.S., the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the United Methodist Church.
		In 1821, a number of black M.E. churches in the New York City area, along with black churches with similar polity, met and organized the AME Zion Church (1973 membership 1,024,974).
		We believe that all the African men and women who are locked down in U.S. concentration camps commonly known as prisons are there due to decisions, laws, and circumstances which were created by aliens and foreigners for their own benefit and as a means of genocidal colonialist control.
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_8.html (1756 words)

	The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. IX: Petri - Reuchlin
		Professor of Liturgies and Ecclesiastical Polity Reformed Episcopal Theological Seminary, Philadephia.
		Polity : A. McLean, The Ancient Church Orders, London, 1910.
		Professor of German and Ecclesiastical Law, University of Bonn.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/encyc09.htm (1756 words)

	Roots of Madre Grande
		(3) The Old Catholic Church or The History, Doctrine, Worship and Polity of the Christians--traced from the Apostolic Age to the Establishment of the Pope as a Temporal Sovereign, A.D.755, by W.D. Killen (T and T Clark Edinburgh, 1871), p.7.
		The Roman Catholic Church has recognized the validity of Old Catholic Orders (apostolic succession), but holds their exercise of episcopal powers to be illegal.
		Through the churches of Religious Science, poverty consciousness was transformed into prosperity consciousness, and the role of practitioners in healing prayer was developed.
	www.madregrande.org /roots.htm (3215 words)

	United Methodist Historical Society of the Baltimore-Washington Conference: Lovely Lane Museum Library: Religion Collections in Libraries and Archives (Main Reading Room, Library of Congress)
		African Americans--Religion; Asbury, Francis, 1745-1816; Church discipline--Methodist Church; Church polity--Methodist Church; Evangelical Association; Evangelical United Brethren; Methodist Church; Methodist Episcopal Church; Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Methodist Protestant Church; Missions and missionaries; Religious education; United Brethren in Christ; United Methodist Church; Wesley, John, 1703-1791; Wesleyan theology; Women in the Methodist Church
		These are the Methodist Episcopal Church; Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Methodist Church; Evangelical Association; United Brethren in Christ; Evangelical United Brethren; Methodist Protestant Church; and the United Methodist Church.
		A listing of United Methodist clergy, primarily from Baltimore and vicinity, on index cards with biographical and career information on ministers of the Methodist Church.
	www.loc.gov /rr/main/religion/umhs.html (3215 words)

	United Methodist Historical Society of the Baltimore-Washington Conference: Lovely Lane Museum Library: Religion Collections in Libraries and Archives (Main Reading Room, Library of Congress)
		African Americans--Religion; Asbury, Francis, 1745-1816; Church discipline--Methodist Church; Church polity--Methodist Church; Evangelical Association; Evangelical United Brethren; Methodist Church; Methodist Episcopal Church; Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Methodist Protestant Church; Missions and missionaries; Religious education; United Brethren in Christ; United Methodist Church; Wesley, John, 1703-1791; Wesleyan theology; Women in the Methodist Church
		These are the Methodist Episcopal Church; Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Methodist Church; Evangelical Association; United Brethren in Christ; Evangelical United Brethren; Methodist Protestant Church; and the United Methodist Church.
		Rev. Edwin Schell is Executive Secretary of the United Methodist Historical Society.
	www.loc.gov /rr/main/religion/umhs.html (671 words)

	United Methodist Historical Society of the Baltimore-Washington Conference: Lovely Lane Museum Library: Religion Collections in Libraries and Archives (Main Reading Room, Library of Congress)
		African Americans--Religion; Asbury, Francis, 1745-1816; Church discipline--Methodist Church; Church polity--Methodist Church; Evangelical Association; Evangelical United Brethren; Methodist Church; Methodist Episcopal Church; Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Methodist Protestant Church; Missions and missionaries; Religious education; United Brethren in Christ; United Methodist Church; Wesley, John, 1703-1791; Wesleyan theology; Women in the Methodist Church
		These are the Methodist Episcopal Church; Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Methodist Church; Evangelical Association; United Brethren in Christ; Evangelical United Brethren; Methodist Protestant Church; and the United Methodist Church.
		Rev. Edwin Schell is Executive Secretary of the United Methodist Historical Society.
	www.loc.gov /rr/main/religion/umhs.html (671 words)

	bargain
		On August 19, 1999, the ELCA Churchwide Assembly voted 716-317 to adopt the Episcopal historic episcopate as the permanent polity of the ELCA.
		ELCA bishops are obligated to hold The Episcopal Church to its verbal acceptance of the bishops' resolution.
		The Episcopal historic episcopate is now binding ELCA law, but as Martin Marty told the ELCA Church Council, "Episcopalians do not expect Lutherans to accept the historic episcopate as a matter of faith...
	www.luthercomment.org /bargain.htm (749 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Methodism
		The Congregational Methodist Church dates back to 1852; it sprang from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and is Methodist in doctrine and congregational in polity (membership, 15,529).
		The dissemination of religious literature is obtained by the foundation of "Book Concerns" (located at New York and Cincinnati for the Methodist Episcopal Church; at Nashville, Tennessee, for the Methodist Episcopal Church South) and a periodical press, for the publications of which the titles of "Advocates" is particularly popular.
		The Free Methodist Church was organized in 1860 at Pekin, New York, as a protest against the alleged abandonment of the ideals of ancient Methodism by the Methodist Episcopal Church.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10237b.htm (749 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Methodism
		The Congregational Methodist Church dates back to 1852; it sprang from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and is Methodist in doctrine and congregational in polity (membership, 15,529).
		The dissemination of religious literature is obtained by the foundation of "Book Concerns" (located at New York and Cincinnati for the Methodist Episcopal Church; at Nashville, Tennessee, for the Methodist Episcopal Church South) and a periodical press, for the publications of which the titles of "Advocates" is particularly popular.
		The Free Methodist Church was organized in 1860 at Pekin, New York, as a protest against the alleged abandonment of the ideals of ancient Methodism by the Methodist Episcopal Church.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10237b.htm (749 words)

	United Methodist Historical Society of the Baltimore-Washington Conference: Lovely Lane Museum Library: Religion Collections in Libraries and Archives (Main Reading Room, Library of Congress)
		African Americans--Religion; Asbury, Francis, 1745-1816; Church discipline--Methodist Church; Church polity--Methodist Church; Evangelical Association; Evangelical United Brethren; Methodist Church; Methodist Episcopal Church; Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Methodist Protestant Church; Missions and missionaries; Religious education; United Brethren in Christ; United Methodist Church; Wesley, John, 1703-1791; Wesleyan theology; Women in the Methodist Church
		These are the Methodist Episcopal Church; Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Methodist Church; Evangelical Association; United Brethren in Christ; Evangelical United Brethren; Methodist Protestant Church; and the United Methodist Church.
		The card catalog, organized by author, covers this collection.
	www.loc.gov /rr/main/religion/umhs.html (749 words)

	Adherents.com
		In 1821, a number of black M.E. churches in the New York City area, along with black churches with similar polity, met and organized the AME Zion Church (1973 membership 1,024,974).
		and, in the U.S., the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the United Methodist Church.
		Listed in table as African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church under subheading "Methodist bodies ".
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_8.html (1756 words)

	Adherents.com
		and, in the U.S., the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the United Methodist Church.
		In 1821, a number of black M.E. churches in the New York City area, along with black churches with similar polity, met and organized the AME Zion Church (1973 membership 1,024,974).
		Listed in table as African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church under subheading "Methodist bodies ".
	www.adherents.com /Na/Na_8.html (1756 words)

	Worship That Works
		Although Absalom Jones preferred to remain a Methodist, a majority of the membership was so disaffected with Methodism because of their treatment at St. George's that they voted to conform to the polity and worship of the Episcopal Church.
		Absalom Jones became a licensed lay preacher at St. George's along with his life-long friend, Richard Allen, who is credited with founding America's first African American denomination in 1816, The African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME).
		On August 16, 1795, at the age of 49, 11 years after purchasing his own freedom, Absalom Jones was ordained to the diaconate, and on September 21, 1802, he was ordained the first African-American priest in the Episcopal Church.
	www.er-d.org /6087_27569_ENG_HTM.htm (1728 words)

	Church Records of the Western Pennsylvania Conference of the United Methodist Church
		He was dissatisfied with Methodist Episcopal polity and in October 1884 led almost all of the congregation to transfer to the Methodist Protestant Church.
		Reverend John Henderson was appointed pastor of the Hoboken Methodist Episcopal Church in 1883.
		In the fall on 1901 under the Pastorate of Reverend Titus Lowe the Church was incorporated under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania and became known as the Fourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church.
	umchurchrecords.org /pittsburgh.htm (1728 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Methodism
		The Congregational Methodist Church dates back to 1852; it sprang from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and is Methodist in doctrine and congregational in polity (membership, 15,529).
		The Free Methodist Church was organized in 1860 at Pekin, New York, as a protest against the alleged abandonment of the ideals of ancient Methodism by the Methodist Episcopal Church.
		In the Methodist Episcopal Church his appointment is limited to a period not exceeding six years, and is in the hands of the bishop.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10237b.htm (1728 words)

	Canon Veal on Anglican Polity
		This was the beginning of the Anglican Communion – first autonomous Episcopal church, offspring of the C of E. Seemed to suffice… “far from intending to depart from the C.
		In the Episcopal Church in the USA the highest and final authority is the General Convention, from which there is no appeal.
		If an Episcopal election occurs near the time of a General Convention, then this process can be shortened by the action of the Convention and no appeal to the Standing Committees is necessary.
	www.nwt.org /anglican_polity.htm (1025 words)

	An Argument for Lutheran Episcopacy
		This argument, that they depict a primitive episcopacy, is strengthened by the fact that episcopal polity is found to be nearly universal very shortly after the apostolic era.
		Episcopacy is the historic polity of the church, and the most widely accepted polity around the world.
		And so, while episcopacy is simply a human arrangement in the church, it seems to have been the normal arrangement since the new testament itself.
	reformationtoday.tripod.com /chemnitz/id35.html (5818 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Methodism
		The Congregational Methodist Church dates back to 1852; it sprang from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and is Methodist in doctrine and congregational in polity (membership, 15,529).
		The Free Methodist Church was organized in 1860 at Pekin, New York, as a protest against the alleged abandonment of the ideals of ancient Methodism by the Methodist Episcopal Church.
		In the Methodist Episcopal Church his appointment is limited to a period not exceeding six years, and is in the hands of the bishop.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10237b.htm (5818 words)

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