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The Episcopal Missionary Church (EMC) is a Continuing Anglican church body in the United States.

History

The Episcopal Missionary Church (EMC), incorporated in 1992, is an outgrowth of the Episcopal Synod of America (now Forward in Faith, North America), an association formed to maintain the traditional faith and practice of the Episcopal Church. The Right Reverend A. Donald Davies, retired Bishop of Fort Worth, Texas, served as its first presiding bishop and was succeeded by The Right Reverend William W. Millsaps, former chaplain of the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee. Bishop Millsaps continues to be the Ordinary of the Diocese of the South, with The Right Reverend John Greaves serving as Bishop Coadjutor and Christ Church, Monteagle, Tennessee, serving as the cathedral for the diocese. The Right Reverend Peter Ng'ang'a became Presiding Bishop of the EMC in 2024 and is the Ordinary of the Diocese of the West, and The Right Reverend Wale Fafiade is the Ordinary of the Diocese of the East.

The EMC acknowledges the Nicene and Apostles' Creeds as definitive statements of the Christian faith. They emphasize the necessity of the sacraments of baptism and Holy Communion and support the historic Episcopate as a means of maintaining apostolic succession. The EMC embraces a variety of liturgical styles from low church to high church, evangelical to Anglo-Catholic.

On 14 September 2020, the EMC endorsed a concordant of full communion with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), which was signed by then-Archbishop Foley Beach and EMC Presiding Bishop William Millsaps.

References

1. "Locations". 26 August 2024.
2. Episcopal Archives website, New Denomination Consecrates Former Episcopal Priests as Bishops, article dated April 1, 1993
3. "Our Bishops"
4. ACNA and Episcopal Missionary Church enter formal concordat, Virtue Online, 11 September 2020

External links

• Episcopal Missionary Church

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