The Anglican Episcopal Church (AEC) is a Continuing Anglican church consisting of parishes in California, Arizona, Nevada, Alaska, and Florida served by two bishops and 18 other clergy. The AEC was founded at St. George's Anglican Church in Ventura, California.
The Anglican Episcopal Church is an Anglican jurisdiction that describes its faith as being based on the 1928 Book of Common Prayer and the Authorized Version of the Bible. The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion are accepted as authoritative.
This church body is not to be confused with the Anglican Episcopal Church of North America which was founded in 1972 by Bishop Walter Hollis Adams (1907 to 1991), with the Anglican Episcopal Church, Celtic Rite which was founded in 1993 by Bishop Robert Harold Hawn (1928 to 1999), or with the Anglican Episcopal Church International which was founded by Bishop Norman S. Dutton in 2008.
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