Good Shepherd offers English speaking residents and visitors the opportunity to worship and serve God in the Episcopal/Anglican tradition.
The Church of the Good Shepherd, located near Shilin station in Taipei, Taiwan is a unique, English language multicultural parish.
We are a congregation of Taiwanese, Australian, British, South African. Americans, and from the churches of Ireland, Scotland, USA, St Kitts and Nevis, Canada, Kenya and New Zealand, and Malaysia etc.
Good Shepherd has always been a community of people from many nations. We are friendly and welcome you whether for one or many visits. The transient nature of our group means the challenge of often saying goodbye, but also the blessing of regularly welcoming newcomers.
We are part of the Anglican Episcopal family of churches that consists of an estimated 85 million Christians who are members of 44 different Churches.
Officially we are known as the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
The English Congregation is friendly, and diverse and inclusive. We are an extended family with various nationalities, ethnicities and spiritual backgrounds.
Several of us are expatriates in Taiwan, working in business, engineering, diplomacy, education and also international students. Some of us are married with one spouse or both Taiwanese. Some are from elsewhere in Asia but we are all part of The Good Shepherd family. You”ll be very welcome!
Please come along and share our service.
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Our Church
Our Church has a special and interesting history. The Episcopal Diocese of Taiwan was established by Chinese Anglicans escaping mainland China, and since much of the early Anglican leadership in Taiwan was provided by American military chaplains, Taiwan so became linked to the Worldwide Anglican Communion through the Episcopal Church.
The Episcopal Church, established shortly after the American Revolution, has its roots in The Church of England. When the colonies won their independence, the majority of America’s Anglican clergy refused to swear allegiance to the British monarch as was then historically required. As a result, the Episcopal Church was formed.
Our Church is set within a complex of buildings constructed in a Chinese style with a central courtyard around which is the Church, clergy offices, community center, living space, and the church school.
Taipei’s Church of the Good Shepherd is a multicultural parish with two congregations, one that speaks English and the other that speaks Mandarin Chinese Each congregation has its own clergy, Sunday School, Executive committee, a combined Vestry, and ministries with the Rector overseeing the entire church.
Today, our Church serves both the international English-speaking community, and local Chinese population in Shihlin. Separate services are conducted each Sunday with their own clergy in English, and then later in Chinese. On one Sunday each month, both congregations come together for a combined service in two languages, English and Mandarin.
Our Worship
Taipei’s Church of the Good Shepherd offers English speaking residents and visitors the opportunity to worship in the Episcopal/ Anglican tradition.
Although Good Shepherd began as a church for English-speaking people, it was constructed in a Chinese style with buildings set around a traditional courtyard.
We are part of the Anglican Episcopal family of churches that consists of an estimated 85 million Christians who are members of 44 different Churches.
We gather for Holy Eucharist on Sunday mornings at 9:30a.m.
Our Mission
Our Vision is to provide spiritual grounding, and an oasis for English speakers in Taiwan; to use our unique and diverse gifts in service to the lord, and to Love one another as Christ loves us.
