Why are Anglicans from America called Episcopalians?

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Why are Anglicans from America called Episcopalians?

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Episcopal = has bishops (unlike other protestant denominations like Methodists, baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans).

Anglican = English so the north American churches didn’t want to say they were being English after independence. 

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