Episcopal Church

LC control no.	n 79058456
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Episcopal Church *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America American Episcopal Church Protestant Episcopal Church Protestantlich-Bischöfliche Kirche der Vereinigten Staaten
See also	Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Other standard no.	Q682443 122583900 0000000107889744
Associated country	United States
Special note	SUBJECT USAGE: This heading is not subdivided by --United States
Found in	Its Journal of the General Convention ... 1967: t.p. (Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, otherwise known as the Episcopal Church) p. 379-80 (a resolution passed by both houses of Gen. Conv. added to the constitution of the church a preamble which begins: The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, otherwise known as the Episcopal Church (which name is hereby recognized as also designating the Church)) Soundings (Minneapolis, Minn.), Nov. 1982: p. 8 ([General Convention of the Church, Sept. 1982] deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church) Ecclesia (Greenville, S.C.). Ecclesia, Nov./Dec. 1974, surrogate: caption t.p. (American Episcopal Church) The church and the Indians, 1876?: p. 1 (Protestant Episcopal Church) Deutsches Kirchenblatt [MI] Nov. 1874: caption (... der Protestantlich-Bischöflichen Kirche der Vereinigten Staaten) Proceedings of a Meeting of Bishops, Clergymen, and Laymen, of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate states, 1999: p. 10 (Convention called to consider the expediency of forming an ecclesiastical organization among the Confederate states, independent of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States) p. 14 (resolution to form a new organization to be entitled the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America) Malone, H. The Episcopal Church in Georgia, 1960: p. 95, etc. (Protestant Episcopal Church of the Confederate States of America; held its first and only General Council at Augusta, Ga. in 1862; remained in existence until late 1865)
Associated language	eng