Trinity Episcopal Church

What Kind of Church Is This? For more information about Trinity Episcopal Church, the Diocese of Texas, and the Episcopal Church, we recommend that you watch our welcome video and explore this website and the links. In many ways, the Episcopal Church can be viewed as the heir to the English Reformation in the United States and several other countri... es of the Western Hemisphere. We are part of the Anglican Communion, a fellowship of some 70-80 million Christians throughout the world who share certain family resemblances (especially when it comes to history and worship). The Anglican Communion is diverse in every conceivable way but united in following Jesus, whose mission we continue in the world. We believe that our fellowship (and each of the self-governing regional churches that make it up) are part of the one holy catholic and apostolic Church mentioned in the Creeds, without being the whole of it. Like other parts of the Anglican family, Episcopalians have been crucial to the founding of the modern ecumenical movement, in which the divided branches of the Christian Church seek a shared life and witness to Jesus. Our Presiding Bishop (Bishop Michael Curry, of royal wedding fame) speaks of the Episcopal branch of the Jesus Movement. Among churches emerging out of the sixteenth-century reformations, the Church of England was distinctive in several respects. Unlike Protestant churches on the continent, the English Reformation involved separating from the Pope and the Church of Rome politically, while retaining (and, in some cases, reforming) many of the sacraments, traditions, and governance structures of the medieval Church. It saw itself as both Catholic and Reformed. Some chose to emphasize one aspect of this heritage over the other, but tensions between different factions in the Church were resolved by royal supremacy. In the so called Elizabethan settlement, it was also agreed that different points of view would co-exist within a single church with agreement about the historic Creeds and primacy of ...Read More