What is the difference between Catholic and Episcopal?

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1. What is the difference between Catholic and Episcopal?
2. What it means to be Episcopalian?
3. What is the belief of the Episcopal Church?
4. What is the difference between Anglican and Episcopal?
5. What Bible does the Episcopal Church use?
6. Do Episcopalians use the rosary?
7. What Bible do the Episcopalians use?
8. Is Episcopal like Catholic?
9. Do Episcopalians drink alcohol?
10. Is the Episcopal Church biblical?
11. Which Bible does the Episcopal Church use?
12. Do Episcopalians believe in purgatory?
13. Do Episcopalians believe in salvation?
14. What Bible does episcopal use?
15. Why do Episcopalians bow to the altar?
16. Do Episcopalians believe in confession?

What is the difference between Catholic and Episcopal?

Episcopalians do not believe in the authority of the pope and thus they have bishops, whereas catholics have centralisation and thus have pope. Episcopalians believe in the marriage of priests or bishops but Catholics do not let popes aor priests marry.

What it means to be Episcopalian?

1 : an adherent of the episcopal form of church government. 2 : a member of an episcopal church (such as the Protestant Episcopal Church)

What is the belief of the Episcopal Church?

We Episcopalians believe in a loving, liberating, and life-giving God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

What is the difference between Anglican and Episcopal?

Episcopal is considered as a subset of Anglican. Anglicanism is a mixture of Catholicism and Protestantism, while Episcopal beliefs to be more Protestants in nature. Both follow the same 'Book of Prayers'. Episcopal is often called Anglican Episcopal.

What Bible does the Episcopal Church use?

Episcopalians trace their ancestry from the Church of England. As such, the English Bible, particularly the authorized King James Bible, is the Episcopalian Bible. Anglicans first arrived in North America via the English Puritans and Pilgrims.

Do Episcopalians use the rosary?

Anglican prayer beads, also known as the Anglican rosary or Anglican chaplet, are a loop of strung beads used chiefly by Anglicans in the Anglican Communion, as well as by communicants in the Anglican Continuum.

What Bible do the Episcopalians use?

Episcopalians trace their ancestry from the Church of England. As such, the English Bible, particularly the authorized King James Bible, is the Episcopalian Bible. Anglicans first arrived in North America via the English Puritans and Pilgrims.

Is Episcopal like Catholic?

The Episcopal Church describes itself as "Protestant, yet Catholic". ... The Book of Common Prayer, a collection of traditional rites, blessings, liturgies, and prayers used throughout the Anglican Communion, is central to Episcopal worship.

Do Episcopalians drink alcohol?

The Episcopal Church, along with other "mainline" Protestant denominations, the Roman Catholic Church and the major American branches of Judaism, allows its members to consume alcohol.

Is the Episcopal Church biblical?

The Episcopal Church (TEC), based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere, is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion....Episcopal Church (United States)

Episcopal Church
Orientation	Anglican
Scripture	Holy Bible
Theology	Anglican doctrine Anglo-Catholicism Protestantism
Polity	Episcopal

Which Bible does the Episcopal Church use?

Episcopalians trace their ancestry from the Church of England. As such, the English Bible, particularly the authorized King James Bible, is the Episcopalian Bible. Anglicans first arrived in North America via the English Puritans and Pilgrims.

Do Episcopalians believe in purgatory?

Episcopalians tend be of a split mind concerning a notion of a post-death place of purification called Purgatory. Many of those adhering to a more "Anglo-Catholic" tradition tend to embrace the concept of a temporary way-station to better themselves before moving on to eternal life in heaven.

Do Episcopalians believe in salvation?

Episcopalians typically consider salvation to begin in each person's life with baptism, the ritual by which a person is granted "rebirth" by the Holy Spirit and destined to live a Christian life.

What Bible does episcopal use?

Episcopalians trace their ancestry from the Church of England. As such, the English Bible, particularly the authorized King James Bible, is the Episcopalian Bible.

Why do Episcopalians bow to the altar?

And since the congregation does not normally process into the church on most Sundays, the act of bowing the head is a way of acknowledging participation in the processional toward the manifested presence of God in the sanctuary.

Do Episcopalians believe in confession?

One of the distinguishing Catholic practices is the confession of sins. ... The Episcopalians, however, do not believe in this; they believe that the only way to ask for forgiveness is to talk to the Lord directly and tell Him your sins.