The Evangelical Episcopal Communion is a relational family of churches, clergy, chaplains, and ministries across the world. We abide by the orthodox faith as has been passed down to us, while bringing together the scriptural, spirit-filled, and sacramental streams of the church, as it was in the early days of the church. We live out our spirituality through a Western-rite, Anglican spirituality that is missionally driven. Our missional priorities are raising healthy leaders, supporting healthy churches, planting missional communities and church plants, sending chaplains, and developing and equipping leaders. 

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We are evangelical in the classical sense that the good news of Christ’s life, death, resurrection, and reign must be proclaimed to all peoples. We do not mean evangelical as a cultural brand or political tribe. We mean a communion shaped by the Great Commission and a shared commitment to make Jesus known through faithful preaching, disciple making, and local presence in our neighborhoods, especially in urban and multicultural contexts. 

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We are episcopal because we receive and practice the ancient threefold order of deacons, priests, and bishops as taught in Scripture and received in the Church’s tradition. Our bishops are not distant executives or authoritarians. They serve as shepherds and spiritual fathers, pastors to the pastors, guarding the faith, fostering unity, and providing accountable oversight that strengthens healthy ministry and mission.

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We are a communion because our life together is organic and relational, held in common by the Holy Spirit rather than mere institutional alignment. We pursue coordinated ministry, shared resources, mutual encouragement, and real accountability so that churches can do more together than they could separately, while remaining rooted in the historic creeds and the life of the ancient Church. 

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We also embrace a convergent way of being church, seeking wholeness rather than imbalance by holding together evangelical conviction, Spirit filled life, and ancient rooted worship. Empowered by the Spirit for mission today, we labor for biblical justice and reconciliation as fruits of repentance and signs of the Kingdom, and we gladly partner with other churches and traditions in shared mission without compromising our core beliefs. 

 

Through God's blessing, we have 15 million parishioners throughout the world, on almost every continent, together working to share the good news of God's love. While our Western-rite, Orthodox-Anglican spirituality binds us together in common, our expression of worship varies. From the plains of Africa with vibrant Pentecostal worship to the high-church liturgy of England and the soul-deep songs of African-American Black churches, our Communion family shares one mission.