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Episcopal Church in the Philippines

The Episcopal Church in the Philippines is one of the constituent members of the Anglican Communion. It has about 125,000 members and is divided into 6 dioceses: Central Philippines, North Central Philippines, Northern Luzon, Northern Philippines, Santiago, and Southern Philippines. At the Church's website there is a photo captioned "Banners of the Dioceses, the Province [i.e. the Church] and the Flag of the Republic in procession": http://www.episcopalphilippines.net/thumnails.htm.

The banner of the Province is gonfalon-shaped, but some of the other "banners" are true flags, see http://www.episcopalphilippines.net/banners.JPG.

The white gonfalon with a log right behind the national flag is probably that of the Province, since the logo matches that displayed prominently on the Church's homepage: http://www.episcopalphilippines.net/.
The dark green flag right behind that is also probably representing the whole Province, since it bears the Church's arms, see the top of http://www.episcopalphilippines.net/Pictures.htm. I'm not sure which dioceses are represented by which flags, but since decent views of the arms can be seen on a few of them it might be possible to ferret some out. Also note that the Episcopal Church in the Philippines is not to be confused with the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Philippine Independent Church) a different denomination which is in full communion with the Anglican Communion but is not a member of it.
Ned Smith, 15 January 2006