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☆ Protestant Episcopal Church

the Protestant denomination in the U.S. historically related to the Church of England, and retaining its liturgical and theological forms, but autonomous since 1789
now also called the Episcopal Church

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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