Reformed Episcopal Church

The Reformed Episcopal Church (REC) is an American and Canadian-based Christian denomination which is in communion with some Anglican Communion provinces throughout the world, including the Church of Nigeria and the Church of Uganda, two of the largest Anglican provinces worldwide. The REC understands itself as an Anglican church while still not being recognized by the See of Canterbury. Being in communion with parts of the Anglican Communion and not in communion with other parts, makes the REC representative of the larger worldwide tensions in the Anglican Communion, as the more conservative elements of Anglicanism, mostly represented by provinces in Africa and the conservative elements in North America, have made many moves to counteract the long-standing dominance of the Church of England, because of the perceived liberalism that the Church of England has continued to embrace and encourage throughout the Anglican Communion.