Southern Episcopal Church

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Southern Episcopal Church (SEC) was founded in Nashville, Tennessee in 1962 by a physician turned clergyman, the Right Reverend Burnice Hoyle Webster, and a number of former members of the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA). Bishop Webster became the SEC''s first presiding bishop. The SEC now considers itself a "Continuing Anglican" church, but its members point out that the founding of the SEC preceded the start of the Continuing Anglican Movement by a decade and a half. The Southern Episcopal Church was established in reaction to the liberal political and theological trends of the 1960s within ECUSA. This was the era of the Civil Rights Movement, a cause that was strongly supported by the mainstream of ECUSA, including several Southern bishops and numerous clergymen.