Episcopalian facts for kids

Episcopalian and Episcopal could mean:

• Episcopal Church
• Anglican Communion, Anglican Churches worldwide
• Anglicanism, people, institutions and concepts of the Anglican Communion (UK and Commonwealth common usage)

Images for kids

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  Jesus Christ supporting an English flag and staff in the crook of his right arm depicted in a stained glass window in Rochester Cathedral, Kent

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  Saint Alban is venerated as the first-recorded British Christian martyr.

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  Augustine of Canterbury was the first Archbishop of Canterbury.

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  Queen Elizabeth I revived the Church of England in 1559, and established a uniform faith and practice. She took the title "Supreme Governor".

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  Frederick Denison Maurice was a prominent 19th-century Anglican theologian

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  Richard Hooker (1554–1600), one of the most influential figures in shaping Anglican theology and self-identity.

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  Thomas Cranmer wrote the first two editions of the Book of Common Prayer, BCP

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  An eastward-facing Solemn High Mass, a Catholic liturgical phenomenon which re-emerged in Anglicanism following the Catholic Revival of the 19th century

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  The 1596 Book of Common Prayer

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  Evensong at York Minster

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  The Arms of the See of Canterbury.

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  A priest in Eucharistic vestments.

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  The vestments of a deacon, including a stole over the left shoulder.

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  1854 image of the ruins of Jamestown Church, the first Anglican church in North America

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  High altar at the Anglo-Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania)

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  Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin

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  Justin Welby in South Korea. As the Archbishop of Canterbury, Welby is the symbolic head of the international Anglican Communion.

See also

In Spanish: Anglicanismo para niños