Colored Episcopal Mission
Colored Episcopal Mission is an obsolete Anglican term used by the
Episcopal Church in the United States of America
. The term was coined in the 19th century.
The Episcopal Church supported a separate
African-American
communicants during this period of time were chartered as Colored Episcopal Missions. The duality of the Church encouraged a separate cultivation of Black religious life through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It encouraged the separate parishes while depriving African Americans a voice or representation in church governance. Parish status was awarded when the mission became financially independent from the diocese. It was common for these missions to have a long duration as a mission before reaching parish status.
The first established Colored Episcopal Mission is St. Thomas Episcopal in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1794.[citation needed]
Archives
Established in 2003, the
African American Episcopal Historical Collection. The collection contains the personal papers, institutional records, oral histories and photographs of many historically black missions.[1]
References
- ^ "Welcome ยท The Church Awakens: African Americans and the Struggle for Justice". episcopalarchives.org. Archived from the original on 2023-03-03. Retrieved 2023-05-13.
Further reading
- Episcopalians and Race: Civil War to Civil Rights. Gardiner H. Shattuck (2003)