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The Philippine Episcopal Church is an Anglican Province of the Worldwide Anglican Communion. It was established by the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America in the early 1900. It has already celebrated its Centennial Anniversary. It is now autonomous Province or Church in the Anglican Communion which traces its roots in the Church of England. It's current website is located [Philippine Episcopal http://www.episcopalphilippines.net] by Fr.Ariel Dumaran-[San Lorenzo Ruiz http://sanlorenzoruiz.dumaran.com] [diocese of Toronto http://www.toronto.anglican.ca]

Brief history of the Episcopal Church of the Philippines taken from its website

The Episcopal Church in the Philippines, ECP, began as a Missionary district of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. It became a Missionary Diocese in 1965. On May 1, 1990, with five constituent Dioceses, it was inaugurated as an autonomous Church Province within the Anglican Communion (AC). The Anglican Communion is composed of those duly constituted national churches worldwide, independent from each other, but, are in communion with the historic See of Canterbury, in England. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the symbolic head of Anglicans everywhere.

Its early missionary policy was "not putting an altar over and against another altar" and thus, targeted the following major areas for Mission: --   the unchurched Chinese and growing Caucasian population in Manila. --   the indigenous peoples of Mindanao who were neither subjugated by Spain nor converted to Christianity; and, --   the fierce tribes in the Cordilleras of Northern Luzon who were neither subjugated by Spain nor converted to Christianity.