The Episcopal Church (TEC) is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere.
It is a mainline Christian denomination divided into nine provinces. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Michael Bruce Curry, the first African-American bishop to serve in that position.
In 2018,[update] the Episcopal Church had 1,835,931 baptized members, of whom 1,676,349 were in the United States. In 2011,[update] it was the nation's 14th largest denomination.