The Episcopal Church

What The Episcopal Church does

The Episcopal Church is a nonprofit, autonomous religious denomination and one of the constituent members of the global Anglican Communion. Founded in 1789 with the first General Convention, it is legally organized as The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, governed under New York law and headquartered at 815 Second Avenue, New York City. It operates through approximately 109 dioceses in the United States plus international jurisdictions in Puerto Rico (Caribbean) and Taiwan (East Asia), exercising ministry through roughly 140 active bishops and more than 750 deputies.

The denomination's core product is its ministry and worship infrastructure, delivered through a unified digital footprint centered on EpiscopalChurch.org and sub-brands including Sermons That Work, Lesson Plans That Work, the Way of Love, the Lectionary Calendar, the Book of Common Prayer, the Episcopal News Service, and United Thank Offering grants. Its underlying technology is a content-publishing and governance platform with no disclosed proprietary AI components, APIs, or developer SDKs. Programmatic ministries include Episcopal Migration Ministries (refugee resettlement), New Episcopal Community Grants, Racial Reconciliation, Creation Care, and Evangelism.

The Episcopal Church is funded by voluntary contributions — tithes, offerings, and mission shares — from its member dioceses and congregations. It has no commercial pricing model and is supported by a donation-based revenue model with triennial budgets approved by General Convention. It is governed by a bicameral legislature (House of Bishops and House of Deputies) meeting every three years, with an Executive Council acting between conventions and a Presiding Bishop serving as chief pastor.

Name

The Episcopal Church

Legal name

The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America

Website

https://episcopalchurch.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1789

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

The Episcopal Church is a U.S. nonprofit religious denomination, part of the global Anglican Communion, founded in 1789. It serves approximately 109 dioceses and congregations across the United States, Puerto Rico, and Taiwan through liturgical resources, governance, and ministry programs funded by donations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Denomination Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131), Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321)

akta.pro primary industry

Denominational & Ecclesiastical Governance Bodies (Dioceses, Synods, Conferences) (BPAGAJAB)

Keywords

• Religious denomination services
• Liturgical worship programs
• Theological education
• Faith formation resources
• Denominational governance

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Tithes and Offerings: The Episcopal Church receives financial support from member dioceses and congregations through tithes, offerings, and mission shares.

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Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Episcopal Church is a Christian denomination rooted in the Anglican tradition, providing liturgical worship, theological education, pastoral ministry, and governance support to its network of dioceses, congregations, and individual members across the United States. It also operates discrete ministry programs — including refugee resettlement through Episcopal Migration Ministries, mission grant-making through the United Thank Offering, and historical preservation via the Episcopal Archives — alongside faith formation resources such as The Way of Love, Lesson Plans That Work, and Sermons That Work.

Product overview

The Episcopal Church operates a unified digital presence centered on EpiscopalChurch.org, supported by specialized resource platforms including Lesson Plans That Work (educational curriculum), Sermons That Work (homiletic resources), and the Lectionary Calendar. Core programs include United Thank Offering (mission grants), Episcopal Migration Ministries (refugee services), Episcopal Archives (historical repository), the Book of Common Prayer (liturgical text), and The Way of Love (discipleship resources). The church's governance is conducted through General Convention, meeting triennially, with bicameral structure comprising the House of Bishops and House of Deputies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• The Way of Love: A set of seven spiritual practices for disciples of Jesus Christ
• Sermons That Work
• Lesson Plans That Work
• United Thank Offering
• Episcopal News Service

Products and services

• Lesson Plans That Work Sunday School and faith formation curriculum resource providing lesson plans for Episcopal church school teachers and Christian educators across age groups.
• Sermons That Work Preaching resource providing sermon ideas and commentary based on the Revised Common Lectionary for Episcopal clergy and lay preachers.
• United Thank Offering (UTO) Mission grant program of the Episcopal Church that collects thank offerings from members and disburses grants to support domestic and international mission and ministry projects.
• Episcopal Migration Ministries Refugee resettlement and immigration services ministry operating as one of nine U.S. national agencies resettling refugees, providing direct services to refugees and migrants.
• Episcopal Archives Historical archive service preserving and providing access to the records of the Episcopal Church's national, provincial, synod, and diocesan bodies for researchers, scholars, and church members.
• The Way of Love Discipleship and spiritual formation program of the Episcopal Church guiding members through practices of turning, learning, praying, worshipping, blessing, going, and resting.

Quantifiable outcome

• United Thank Offering awards nearly $1 million for 25 mission and ministry projects

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Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Presbyterian Church (USA): The PC(USA) is a mainline Protestant denomination in the U.S. with a comparable governance model (general assemblies, presbyteries), shared demographic profile, and overlapping theological traditions that put it in direct comparability for membership and revenue dynamics.
• Church of England: The Church of England is the mother church of the Anglican Communion, from which The Episcopal Church derives its origins and with which it shares liturgical, theological, and governance traditions including the Book of Common Prayer heritage.
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: ELCA is a mainline U.S. Protestant denomination sharing congregational polity, synod governance, and historic liturgical traditions that overlap heavily with Episcopal practice and face similar demographic and revenue trends.
• Anglican Church of Canada: The Anglican Church of Canada is a fellow autonomous province of the Anglican Communion in North America with shared liturgical resources, episcopal polity, and ties to the Archbishop of Canterbury, making it a structurally identical peer.
• United Methodist Church: The UMC is a U.S. mainline Protestant denomination with comparable size, governance structure (general conference), and reliance on congregational giving; recent denominational fragmentation makes it directly comparable on both structure and risk profile.
• African Methodist Episcopal Church: The AME Church is a historically Black Methodist denomination operating in the same U.S. religious market with parallel episcopal governance and comparable programmatic activity (mission, education, publishing).
• Church of the Nazarene: The Church of the Nazarene is a Wesleyan-holiness Protestant denomination operating district-based global missions with comparable governance cadence and donor-supported revenue model to TEC's structure.
• American Baptist Churches USA: American Baptist Churches USA is a U.S. Protestant denomination of comparable scale with congregational autonomy and association-based governance that competes for overlapping mainline Protestant members and donors.
• United Church of Christ: The UCC is another mainline Protestant U.S. denomination operating under a similar synod/conference model with comparable congregational funding and shared progressive theological positioning relative to evangelical peers.

Broad incumbents

• United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: The USCCB is the national policy and governance body of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S.—a much larger incumbent serving the same broad religious congregation market while operating under a fundamentally different (hierarchical) governance structure.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/iamepiscopalian
• Facebookfacebook.com/episcopalian
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/theepiscopalchurch

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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