St George's Episcopal Church

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The Anglican Communion is a worldwide family of churches. It’s the third-largest Christian communion globally, after the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox churches. The communion consists of 42 independent national or regional churches, including the Church of England, the Episcopal Church (USA), the Anglican Church of Kenya, the Anglican Church of Southern Africa and many others. Each church is autonomous, meaning they govern themselves, but united by shared history, liturgy, and episcopal structure. (Click above to read more.)

The Episcopal Church, also known as the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, is a member of the worldwide Anglican Communion, based in the United States. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Sean W. Rowe. (Click above to learn more.)

Founded in 1980, El Camino Real was originally part of the Diocese of California. We are named after the Spanish colonial road from Mexico City to Oregon.

In 2024 the diocese included forty congregations in the counties of Santa Clara (except for some in Los Altos and Palo Alto), Santa Cruz, San Benito, Monterey, and San Luis Obispo. The diocese includes the cities of San Jose (the see city), Monterey, Santa Cruz, and San Luis Obispo. (Click above to read more.)

St George’s Episcopal Church was created from two mission churches in Salinas – St George’s Mission, and Church of the Holy Spirit Mission – which combined as one church in 1972 and became a parish in 1976. (Click above to read more about us.)