Southern Episcopal Church

The Southern Episcopal Church (SEC) is an Anglican

Southern Episcopal Church
Christian denomination established in Nashville, Tennessee in
1953,[1] and formally organised in 1962, in reaction to liberal
political and theological trends within the Episcopal Church
USA.[2][3] It is connected to the Continuing Anglican
movement, although it was formed more than a decade before
the movement began.[4]

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.[3] It uses the 1928
Book of Common Prayer for its liturgy.[1][3][5]

The leader of the initial group was Burnice Hoyle Webster, a

medical doctor who became presiding bishop.[6] The current Arms of the Southern Episcopal
presiding bishop is William Martin Sloane.[7] Church
Classification Anglican
The SEC has one seminary, the Holy Trinity College and
Seminary, which offers classes by distance studies.[8] Presiding bishop William Martin
Sloane

References Origin 1962

Separated from Episcopal Church
1. "Southern Episcopal Church". Melton's Encyclopedia in the United
of American Religions. 2009. p. 165.
States
2. Armentrout, Donald S. (1986). "Episcopal Splinter
Groups: A Study of Groups Which Have Left the Official website southernepiscopal
Episcopal Church, 1873-1985" (http://anglicanhistory. .us (http://souther
org/academic/armentrout1985.pdf) (PDF). Historical nepiscopal.us)
Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 55 (4).
Retrieved 20 June 2022.
3. "About" (https://southernepiscopal.us/about/). Southern Episcopal Church. Retrieved
20 June 2022.
4. "Guide to the Continuing Church Movement collection ARC Mss 33" (https://oac.cdlib.org/fin
daid/ark:/13030/c87w6jxn/dsc/). Online Archive of California. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
5. "All Saints Church, Nashville, Tennessee" (http://allsaints.tripod.com). Allsaints.tripod.com.
Retrieved 17 July 2022.
6. An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church: A User-Friendly Reference for Episcopalians (https://
books.google.com/books?id=QNM8AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA496). Church Publishing. 1999.
p. 496. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
7. "Presiding Bishop's Page" (https://southernepiscopal.us/presiding-bishops-page/). Southern
Episcopal Church. Retrieved 20 June 2022.
 8. "Holy Trinity College and Seminary" (https://southernepiscopal.us/holy-trinity-college-semin
ary/). Southern Episcopal Church. Retrieved 20 June 2022.

External links
Southern Episcopal Church website (https://southernepiscopal.us/)

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