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Southern Episcopal Church
Arms of the Southern Episcopal Church
Classification	Anglican
Presiding bishop	William Martin Sloane
Origin	1962
Separated from	Episcopal Church in the United States
Official website	southernepiscopal.us

The Southern Episcopal Church (SEC) is an Anglican Christian denomination established in Nashville, Tennessee in 1953, and formally organised in 1962, in reaction to liberal political and theological trends within the Episcopal Church USA. It is connected to the Continuing Anglican movement, although it was formed more than a decade before the movement began.

The SEC does not consider itself a new denomination, but rather as providing a church home for Episcopalians who wished to maintain their Anglican faith and tradition. It uses the 1928 Book of Common Prayer for its liturgy.

The leader of the initial group was Burnice Hoyle Webster, a medical doctor who became presiding bishop. The current presiding bishop is William Martin Sloane.

The SEC has one seminary, the Holy Trinity College and Seminary, which offers classes by distance studies.

References

1. ^ "Southern Episcopal Church". Melton's Encyclopedia of American Religions. 2009. p. 165.
2. Armentrout, Donald S. (1986). "Episcopal Splinter Groups: A Study of Groups Which Have Left the Episcopal Church, 1873-1985" (PDF). Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 55 (4). Retrieved 20 June 2022.
3. ^ "About". Southern Episcopal Church. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
4. "Guide to the Continuing Church Movement collection ARC Mss 33". Online Archive of California. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
5. "All Saints Church, Nashville, Tennessee". Allsaints.tripod.com. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
6. An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church: A User-Friendly Reference for Episcopalians. Church Publishing. 1999. p. 496. ISBN 978-0-89869-211-2. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
7. "Presiding Bishop's Page". Southern Episcopal Church. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
8. "Holy Trinity College and Seminary". Southern Episcopal Church. Retrieved 20 June 2022.

External links

• Southern Episcopal Church website

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