The Southern Episcopal Church (SEC) is an Anglican Christian denomination established in Nashville, Tennessee in 1953,[1] and formally organised in 1962, in reaction to liberal political and theological trends within the Episcopal Church USA.

[4] The SEC does not consider itself a new denomination, but rather as providing a church home for Episcopalians who wished to maintain their Anglican faith and tradition.

[1][3][5] The leader of the initial group was Burnice Hoyle Webster, a medical doctor who became presiding bishop.

[6] The current presiding bishop is William Martin Sloane.

[7] The SEC has one seminary, the Holy Trinity College and Seminary, which offers classes by distance studies.