Preserving the Future

The Episcopal Project is a 501(3)c non-profit. Our mission is to help Episcopal churches and organizations preserve and protect their history for future generations.

We’re here to help Episcopalians. With you, we can survey your records, catalogue, digitize, and protect your history. At the heart of what we do is the Digital Archive. It is designed to make digitized church and parish records both accessible and secure.

  • Handwritten family record book documenting baptisms of colored persons, including names, birth dates, and baptism dates from 1826 to 1855, in cursive script.

    Registers, Vestry Records, Historic Documents

  • Two elderly people, a woman and a man, are having a conversation inside a building with white railings and red carpet. The woman is holding a notebook and has a surprised expression, while the man is leaning on a white partition and smiling.

    Audio & Video Recordings, Transcripts, Interviews

  • Interior of a small church with wooden pews, stained glass windows, and chandeliers hanging from the ceiling.

    Photographs, Maps, Drawings, Artifacts

Explore the Digital Archive

The Digital Archive is a searchable, digital assets catalogue that balances usability with privacy. It is custom built to serve Episcopal churches and dioceses. Some content is accessible to all while other content is available to the client only. Privacy of records is determined by the client.

Our Story

Learn how we can help preserve your church’s history. This video, featuring Founder Edna Johnston and Board Member Nate Kettlewell, explains how The Episcopal Project came to be and the way it works.

Workshop Summary and Transcript

Workshop Slide Deck

Special Projects

Laying the Leavy

This exhibit explores vestry books from two colonial parishes in eastern Virginia.

The Warrior Shrine

This collection preserves the remains of an early 20th-century shrine in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Two elderly men, one African American with glasses and gray hair, smiling at each other, the other Caucasian with a white beard, wearing a black hat, also smiling.