The Episcopal Peace Fellowship was founded in New York City on November 11, 1939 with the mission to pray, study, and work for peace. EPF was originally titled the Episcopal Pacifist Fellowship by its founders: John Nevin Sayre, Walter Russell Bowie, Elmore McKee, Eric M. Tasman, Luke White, Katharine Pierce, William Appleton Lawrence, Walter Mitchell, and Paul Jones. EPF adopted our current name in 1965.

Currently, EPF supports local chapters and issue-focused action groups as well as individual members. EPF is a sister organization with the Fellowship of Reconciliation (an international, interfaith movement from whose members EPF was born) and the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship (based in the United Kingdom).