The answer is no! It is a new church structure but not a new Church. Unhappily, in the realm of the Church there have been many times when large groups of Christians have been led into heresies against the sound doctrine and Faith once delivered to the Apostles. In the late 50’s and early 60’s there began a movement by the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States to water down the traditions and truth by an influx of liberal minded pseudo-intellectuals who came to worship their learning above the Truth of God. Even to the point of teaching doubts concerning the Virgin Birth, the resurrection and even the divinity of our blessed Saviour, Jesus Christ. To be ordained to Holy Orders, men didn’t even have to profess a belief in the Christian Faith, much less the Apostles Doctrine and teachings of the Fathers. In addition, there were some who were proposing ordination to Holy Orders those not scripturally qualified, new liturgies, and a new Prayer Book using “inclusive language”

The Southern Episcopal Church was formed for the purpose of giving Episcopalians a church in which to worship in the faith and practice of their fathers. The Church was founded in Nashville, Tennessee in 1962, by concerned churchmen who felt they could not sit by idly while the liberal clergy in the Protestant Episcopal Church set out to totally destroy the entire principles of Christianity that had been handed down by the Apostles and entrusted to their care. Desiring to hold firm to the Faith once handed to the Apostles, The Rev. Burnice H. Webster was consecrated Bishop, through Anglican (and several other) lines of the Apostolic Succession, in 1965. The Southern Episcopal Church was chartered in Nashville, Tennessee, by Bishop O. J. Woodward and Bishop B. H. Webster. Bishop Webster became the first Presiding Bishop. In 1990 Bishop Webster died and Bishop Huron C. Manning, Jr., was elected Presiding Bishop. Christ Catholic Church (Diocese of Boston), an Old Catholic denomination founded by the late Archbishop Karl Hugo Rehling Prüter, became a part of the SEC in 2008. Bishop Manning retired as SEC Presiding Bishop in 2014 and was succeeded by Bishop William Martin Sloane. The Southern Episcopal Church (SEC) exists as an independent province of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church in the Anglican tradition with parishes throughout Australia, South Africa, and the United States.