First General Convention of the Episcopal Church

The 1785 General Convention of the Episcopal Church marked the first gathering of the newly formed denomination in the United States, where representatives from several states convened to establish the church's structure, officially naming it the "Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America" and authorizing the creation of an American Prayer Book; this convention also set up a governing body with two houses, the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies, which remains the structure of the General Convention today.^[2][3][4]

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• Delaware
• New York
• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania
• South Carolina
• Virginia

• General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America