Bible and Common Prayer Book Society

The Bible and Common Prayer Book Society of the Episcopal Church is a non-profit organization founded in 1809 by John Henry Hobart in the Episcopal Diocese of New York; it is independent of but affiliated with the Episcopal Church. It is a 501(c)(3) Public Charity with 2024 assets of $4,261,630. It claimed total revenue of $266,469 in 2024. Its office is in Red Bank, New Jersey. The society's work was discussed frequently in United States periodicals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

It has published editions and translations of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. It currently makes grants to ministries of the Anglican Communion. In 2025, the organization provided a grant for hymnals in the Dakota language for use in the Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota. It has also collaborated with Church Publishing to provide liturgical materials online. In the 1980s, the society funded the French translation of the then-new 1979 Book of Common Prayer.

Daniel Berkeley Updike's Merrymount Press printed the Bible and Common Prayer Book Society's Commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Book of Common Prayer.

The Bible and Common Prayer Book Society is similar in history and activities to local organizations such as the Margaret Coffin Prayer Book Society in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts (founded 1855) and the Bishop White Prayer Book Society in the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania (founded 1834). It is a separate organization from the similarly named Prayer Book Society of the USA, founded to preserve the 1928 edition of the Book of Common Prayer and to promote study of its predecessors.

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