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Historical Society of the Episcopal Church

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The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church, formerly the Church Historical Society, was founded in Philadelphia in 1910. It publishes the quarterly academic journal Anglican & Episcopal History and a newsletter The Historiographer.

Purposes

The Society exists to promote understanding of the historical heritage of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United State and its antecedents.It fosters cooperation with other churches in the Anglican communion to encourage research, writing, and education of shared Anglican heritage.

The Society gives grants and award to promote its objectives and is engaged major projects and partners with Archives of the Episcopal Church, the National Episcopal Historians and Archivists (NEHA), the Episcopal Women's History Project (EWHP), and the office of the Historiographer of the Episcopal Church.