The Book of Common Prayer for the Episcopal Church

The Book of Common Prayer

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The Book of Common Prayer
The Episcopal Church

Current (1979) Edition:

The Episcopal Church is the representative of the Anglican Communion in the United States, and also in several other countries. It has had its own Book of Common Prayer since the American Revolution; prior to that, of course, it was part of the Church of England.There have been four editions of the Episcopal Church's Book of Common Prayer; all are presented here, starting with the latest and going back to the first.

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An Anglican Service Book: The contemporary language portions of the 1979 BCP put into traditional language, along with other material of interest primarily to Anglo-Catholic parishes.

Liber Precum Publicarum: The 1979 U. S. Book of Common Prayer in Latin.

Portions of the BCP in Vietnamese, from St. Patrick's Church in Virginia

The Standard Book

Libro de Oración Común, The 1979 BCP in Spanish is available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format from the Episcopal Church Center. Also available are Lesser Fests & Fasts and the Book of Occasional Services in Spanish.

The New Liturgy (1966), the first in a series of Trial Eucharist services leading up to the 1979 BCP.

Older Editions:
	1928 in HTML, WordPerfect 6.0, and PDF formats. The Standard Book, D. B. Updike's classic of typography (PDF only) Livre des Prières Publiques: The 1928 Edition in French. Libro de Oración Común: The 1928 Edition in Spanish Livro de Oração Comum: The 1928 Edition in Portuguese, for use in Brazil Wocekiye Wowape: the 1928 Edition in Dakota A Service of Compline (1914) Morning Prayer, with additional prayers, in Chinese The Proposed Revision of the Book of Common Prayer (1925) A Prayer Book for Soldiers and Sailors from WW II The Armed Forces Prayer Book from the Korean War
	1892 in HTML, WordPerfect 6.0, and PDF formats The 1892 Edition in Tigara (an Alaskan Eskimo tongue). The 1892 Edition in Swedish The 1892 Edition in Hungarian The 1892 Edition in Bontoc Igorot (A Philippines tongue) The Standard Book (PDF only) Das allgemeine Gebetbuch: The 1892 Edition in German Libro della Preghiere Comuni: The 1892 Edition in Italian Portions of the Book of Common Prayer in Cheyenne A Book of Offices (1914): the predecessor of The Book of Occasional Services The Campaign Prayer Book: For use in WW I
	1789 in HTML WordPerfect 6.0, and PDF formats. The 1871 Standard Edition: The last standard, in PDF. The 1790 "First Edition": the very first printing of the 1789 BCP, in PDF Livre des Prières Publiques: The 1789 Edition in French. The Book of Common Prayer in Mohawk Portions of the Book of Common Prayer in Ottawa Portions of the Book of Common Prayer in Dakota Portions of the Book of Common Prayer in Norwegian Soldiers' Prayer Books from the Civil War: two books used by Union soldiers The Book of Common Prayer of the Confederacy: The BCP in the South during the Civil War Prayers from the BCP, translated into Oneida
	1786 Proposed BCP in HTML and WordPerfect 6.0 formats
	Bishop Seabury's Communion Office (1786) in HTML or PDF formats
Supplementary Litugical Materials (now known as Enriching Our Worship): Changes and additions adopted at General Convention in July 1997. Hawaii The Preface to the 1863 Hawaiian Book of Common Prayer, written by King Kamehameha, in English and Hawaiian. Holy Eucharist, from the 1979 U. S. Book of Common Prayer, in Hawaiian.

Last updated: 9 April 2009

Web author: Charles Wohlers

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