Traditional Protestant Episcopal Church

The Traditional Protestant Episcopal Church (TPEC) was a jurisdiction of the Continuing Anglican movement in the Reformed Anglican tradition. It was founded in 1991 by Richard G. Melli, formerly a priest of the Anglican Catholic Church, Diocese of the South.^[1] This Christian church body saw itself as maintaining the original doctrine, discipline, and worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America and the evangelical, Protestant, and Reformed faith of historic Anglicanism.^{[citation needed]}

Traditional Protestant Episcopal Church
Abbreviation	TPEC
Classification	Continuing Anglican
Orientation	Reformed Anglican
Polity	Episcopal
Separated from	Anglican Catholic Church (1991)
Separations	Reformed Anglican Church (2009)
Merged into	Anglican Orthodox Church (2011)

The TPEC, which had one diocese that was named Diocese of the Advent, subscribed to the authority of Holy Scripture and the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion.^{[citation needed]} The 1928 Book of Common Prayer was used and assent was given to the 1954 revision of the Constitution and Canons of the PECUSA. At its inception, the church consisted of twelve congregations, primarily low church "Morning Prayer" parishes, and as many clergy.^{[citation needed]}

In September 2011, TPEC's Presiding Bishop, Charles E. Morley, and Canterbury Chapel in Fairhope, Alabama, were received by Presiding Bishop Jerry L. Ogles into the Anglican Orthodox Church.^[2][3]