What is a province?

The term "province" has two meanings within the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. A province is either an autonomous national church recognised as a member of the Anglican Communion, or an internal division of an autonomous national (or multi-national) church of the Anglican Communion. For example, the Church of England, the Church of Ireland, the Anglican Church of Canada, the Anglican Church of Australia, and the Episcopal Church in the United States are all individual provinces of the Anglican Communion. Each of these provinces is in turn divided into internal provinces: there are two each in England and Ireland, four in Canada, five in Australia, and nine in the Episcopal Church, including overseas jurisdictions. Article VII of the Episcopal Church Constitution provides for internal provinces.

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