Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Emmanuel Episcopal Church is a Episcopal church at 17 Bainbridge Avenue in Portsmouth, VA 23702. It is one of 213 churches in Portsmouth, and one of 7 Episcopal congregations in the city.
17 Bainbridge Avenue, Portsmouth, VA, 23702Emmanuel Episcopal Church is part of the Anglican and Episcopal family of churches in The American Church Story. 277 congregations of the Anglican and Episcopal family gather across Virginia — 5,448 across the United States on The Church Map.
Anglicans gave the English-speaking church the words it still prays in: the Book of Common Prayer, and a translation of Scripture that shaped four centuries of worship, writing, and speech. Holding evangelical, catholic, and liberal convictions inside one communion has made them a long school of patience for every tradition that came after.
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The community around Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Social Isolation: 41.1%
- Food Insecurity: 31.0%
- Obesity: 43.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.8%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.4%
- Poverty Rate: 22.5% (12.1–33.0%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.8%
- Diabetes: 15.7%
- Unemployment: 9.7% (2.8–16.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 28.0%
- Depression: 24.9%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.4%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.3%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Portsmouth city is served by 119 churches — about one congregation for every 818 residents.
Churches near Emmanuel Episcopal Church
- Cradock Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- Chosen for Completion Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Holy Angels Roman Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cradock Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Anchor Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Abundant Life Christian Community Center — 0.3 mi away
- Cradock Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Portsmouth Church of the Nazarene — 0.5 mi away
- Highland Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Highland Park Pentecostal Holiness Church — 0.7 mi away
More Anglican churches nearby
- Saint Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.3 mi away
- Wright Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church — 1.9 mi away
- Saint James Episcopal Church — 2 mi away
- Trinity Episcopal Church — 2.4 mi away
- Saint John's Episcopal Church — 2.4 mi away
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