<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Episcopal Church (TEC) is the United States - based member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion . It is a Christian church divided into nine provinces and has dioceses in the United States, Taiwan, Micronesia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, as well as the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe and the Navajoland Area Mission . The current presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Michael Bruce Curry, the first African American bishop to serve in that position . </P> <P> In 2015, the Episcopal Church had 1,917,182 active baptized members, of whom 1,779,335 were members located in the United States . In 2011, it was the nation's 14th largest denomination . In 2015, Pew Research estimated that 1.2 percent of the adult population in the United States, or 3 million people, self - identify as mainline Episcopalians / Anglicans . </P>

Is the episcopal church part of the anglican church