Episcopal Missionary Church

The Episcopal Missionary Church (EMC) is a Continuing

Episcopal Missionary Church
Anglican church body in the United States and a member of
the Federation of Anglican Churches in the Americas.

History
Its founding in the early 1990s can be traced to the protests of
members of the Episcopal Church who were concerned that
their church had become massively influenced by secular
humanism brought about through the adoption of theological
liberalism. At first, these clergy and laymen sought to change
the direction of their church by working from within it, to
which end they formed a voluntary association, the Episcopal
Synod of America.
Classification Protestant
When they later concluded that this approach would not Orientation Anglican
succeed, a new missionary diocese was formed by them, still
Polity Episcopal
attempting to remain within ECUSA. In 1992, however, the
missionary diocese withdrew from ECUSA and formed a Presiding bishop Vincent McLaughlin
separate church, the Episcopal Missionary Church. A. Donald Associations FACA
Davies, retired ECUSA Bishop of Dallas and Fort Worth,
ACNA
was named the first Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal
Missionary Church. Region United States, South
Africa
The Episcopal Missionary Church affirms the Holy Scriptures Founder A. Donald Davies
as containing all things necessary to salvation and as the
ultimate rule and standard of faith. The church acknowledges Origin 1992
the Nicene and Apostles' Creeds and the necessity of the Separated from The Episcopal
sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion. It uses the Church
1928 American edition of the Book of Common Prayer or the
Congregations 27[1]
Anglican Missal based upon it, and emphasizes the
preservation of apostolic succession. The Episcopal Official website www
Missionary Church embraces a variety of liturgical styles from .episcopalmissionary
low church to high church, evangelical to Anglo-Catholic. .church (http://www.
episcopalmissionary.
In January 2020, the Episcopal Missionary Church endorsed
church)
a concordant of communion with the Anglican Church in
North America (ACNA), which was signed by Archbishop
Foley Beach and EMC Presiding Bishop William Millsaps on 14 September 2020.[2][3]

References
1. "Locations" (https://episcopalmissionary.church/locations/). 7 March 2021.
2. College of Bishops Communiqué, ACNA Official Website, January 2020 (http://www.anglica
nchurch.net/?/main/page/1955)
 3. ACNA and Episcopal Missionary Church enter formal concordat, Virtue Online, 11
September 2020 (https://virtueonline.org/acna-and-episcopal-missionary-church-enter-forma
l-concordat)

External links
Episcopal Missionary Church (http://www.emchome.org)
Federation of Anglican Churches in the Americas (https://web.archive.org/web/20111125051
354/http://anglicanfederation.net/)
Holy Cross Anglican Church, Franklin TN (http://www.holycrossanglican.org)

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