On this page you will find links to all of the posts which go into the details of the origins and institutional history of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA -- but now just ECUSA, having dropped the word "Protestant" in 1979), which was founded initially by the successors to the Church of England in seven states in 1789, and then joined shortly thereafter by two more. It is instructive to study how the Church came together, in order to understand how it could also come apart. If you also want to know just what the differences are between ECUSA and the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, you have come to the right place.
There is also a "Know Thy Enemy" series, designed to acquaint those in litigation with ECUSA -- as well as those Episcopalians whose pledges are supporting the litigation -- how the institutions of the Church have been transformed through the years to evolve into the unmanageable bureaucracies they are now.
Finally, at the bottom you will find a link to a page with posts on the forgotten history of the constitutional revisions finally agreed upon by General Convention in 1901.
The Episcopal Church (USA) - History
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