Ecclesiastical provinces and dioceses of the Episcopal Church

The Episcopal Church (TEC) is governed by a General Convention and consists of 100 dioceses in the United States proper, plus eleven dioceses in other countries or outlying U.S. territories and the diocese of Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe, for a total of 2 dioceses.

A diocese, which is led by a bishop, includes all the parishes and missions within its borders, which usually correspond to a state or a portion of a state. Some dioceses includes portions of more than one state. For example, the Diocese of Washington includes the District of Columbia and part of Maryland.

Overview[]

Map of dioceses of the Episcopal Church, colored by province

Province I, New England   Province II, Atlantic   Province III, Washington

Province IV, Sewanee   Province V, Midwest   Province VI, Northwest

Province VII, Southwest   Province VIII, Pacific   Province IX, Latin America

The naming convention for the domestic dioceses, for the most part, is after the state in which they are located or a portion of that state (for example, Northern Michigan or West Texas).

Usually (though not always), in a state where there is more than one diocese, the area where the Episcopal Church (or Church of England before the American Revolution) started in that state is the diocese that bears the name of that state. For example, the Church of England's first outpost in what is now Georgia was in Savannah, hence the Diocese of Georgia is based in Savannah.

There are, however, many dioceses named for their see city or another city in the diocese. A few are named for a river, island, valley or other geographical feature. The list below includes the see city in parentheses if different from the name of the diocese or unclear from its name.

The see city usually has a cathedral, often the oldest parish in that city, but some dioceses do not have a cathedral. The dioceses of Iowa and Minnesota each have two cathedrals. Occasionally the diocesan offices and the cathedral are in separate cities.

Provinces[]

The dioceses are grouped into nine provinces, the first eight of which, for the most part, correspond to regions of the U.S. Province IX is composed of dioceses in Latin America. Province II and Province VIII also include dioceses outside of the U.S.

Unlike in many churches of the Anglican Communion, in which provinces are helmed by a primate or presiding bishop from the clergy, provinces of TEC are led by lay executive directors or presidents. Decisions are made at each province's Synod of the Province, consisting of a House of Bishops and House of Deputies. Lay and clergy Deputies are elected, two from each diocese.

Provinces of TEC are not to be confused with provinces of the Anglican Communion, as TEC itself is one such province of the Communion.

List of provinces and their dioceses[]

Province	Name	Diocese	See city	Founded	Parishes and missions (2015)[1]	Active baptized members (2015)[2]	Diocese Map
Province I	Province of New England	Diocese of Connecticut	Hartford	1785	166	51,068
		Diocese of Maine	Portland, ME	1820	61	11,697
		Diocese of Massachusetts	Boston	1784	163	58,724
		Diocese of New Hampshire	Concord	1832	49	12,662
		Diocese of Rhode Island	Providence	1790	52	17,618
		Diocese of Vermont	Burlington	1832	46	6,547
		Diocese of Western Massachusetts	Springfield, Massachusetts	1901	58	15,618
Province II	The International Atlantic Province or Province of New York and New Jersey	Diocese of Albany	Albany	1868	113	14,765
		Diocese of Central New York	Syracuse	1868	81	12,598
		Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe	(Paris)	1859	16	2,788
		Diocese of Cuba	Havana	1901	46	10,000
		Diocese of Haiti	Port-au-Prince	1861	111	84,562
		Diocese of Long Island	Garden City	1868	132	43,440
		Diocese of New Jersey	Trenton	1785	145	41,662
		Diocese of New York	New York City	1787	198	53,353
		Diocese of Newark	Newark	1874	102	25,478
		Diocese of Rochester	Rochester	1931	46	7,662
		Diocese of the Virgin Islands	Charlotte Amalie	1985	14	3,888
		Diocese of Western New York	Buffalo	1839	58	9,497
Province III	Province of Washington	Diocese of Bethlehem	(Bethlehem)	1871	59	10,606
		Diocese of Central Pennsylvania	Harrisburg	1904	65	12,309
		Diocese of Delaware	(Wilmington, DE)	1785	33	9,336
		Diocese of Easton	(Easton, MD	1888	38	8,004
		Diocese of Maryland	Baltimore	1780	105	37,151
		Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania	Erie	1910	31	3,407
		Diocese of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia	1784	133	42,493
		Diocese of Pittsburgh	Pittsburgh	1865	36	8,681
		Diocese of Southern Virginia	Norfolk	1892	105	26,560
		Diocese of Southwestern Virginia	Roanoke	1919	56	10,521
		Virginia	Richmond (offices) Orkney Springs (cathedral shrine)	1785	182	74,902
		Diocese of Washington	Washington, D.C.	1895	88	40,352
		Diocese of West Virginia	Charleston, WV	1877	63	8,117
Province IV	Province of Sewanee	Diocese of Alabama	Birmingham	1844	88	31,502
		Diocese of Atlanta	Atlanta	1907	94	50,130
		Diocese of Central Florida	Orlando	1969	86	28,576
		Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast	(Pensacola, Florida (Offices) Mobile, Alabama (Cathedral)	1970	62	18,351
		Diocese of East Carolina	Kinston	1863	67	17,385
		Diocese of East Tennessee	Knoxville	1985	47	15,069
		Diocese of Florida	Jacksonville	1838	61	25,289
		Diocese of Georgia	Savannah	1823	67	15,892
		Diocese of Kentucky	Louisville	1832	36	8,285
		Diocese of Lexington	Lexington, KY	1896	34	6,923
		Diocese of Louisiana	New Orleans	1838	47	17,437
		Diocese of Mississippi	Jackson, MS	1850	83	18,406
		Diocese of North Carolina	Raleigh	1823	110	49,767
		Diocese of South Carolina	Charleston, SC	1785	30	6,706
		Diocese of Southeast Florida	Miami	1969	76	32,883
		Diocese of Southwest Florida	Sarasota (Offices) St. Petersburg (cathedral)	1969	77	30,331
		Diocese of Tennessee	(Nashville)	1834	45	16,275
		Diocese of Upper South Carolina	Columbia	1922	59	23,858
		Diocese of West Tennessee	Memphis	1985	31	8,260
		Diocese of Western North Carolina	Asheville	1922	62	15,077
Province V	Province of the Midwest	Diocese of Chicago	Chicago	1823	123	35,496
		Diocese of Eastern Michigan	Saginaw	1994	47	5,888
		Diocese of Eau Claire	Eau Claire	1929	20	1,880
		Diocese of Fond du Lac	Fond du Lac	1875	34	5,289
		Diocese of Indianapolis	Indianapolis	1849	48	9,341
		Diocese of Michigan	Detroit	1832	76	17,539
		Diocese of Milwaukee	Milwaukee	1835	52	9,025
		Diocese of Missouri	St. Louis	1841	42	10,624
		Diocese of Northern Indiana	South Bend	1888	36	4,258
		Diocese of Northern Michigan	Marquette	1895	21	1,393
		Diocese of Ohio	Cleveland	1818	86	19,383
		Diocese of Southern Ohio	Cincinnati	1875	74	19,694
		Diocese of Springfield	Springfield, IL	1877	33	4,138
		Diocese of Western Michigan	Portage Kalamazoo (Offices)		56	9,675
Province VI	Province of the Northwest	Diocese of Colorado	Denver	1875	100	25,540
		Diocese of Iowa	Des Moines (Offices, one cathedral) Davenport (Cathedral)	1854	61	7,717
		Episcopal Church in Minnesota	Minneapolis (Offices, One Cathedral) Faribault (Cathedral)	1859	101	19,871
		Diocese of Montana	Helena	1904	35	4,496
		Diocese of Nebraska	Omaha	1865	53	7,241
		Diocese of North Dakota	Fargo	1883	19	2,563
		Diocese of South Dakota	Sioux Falls	1971	78	8,974
		Diocese of Wyoming	Casper (Offices) Laramie(Cathedral)	1909	46	6,944
Province VII	Province of the Southwest	Diocese of Arkansas	Little Rock	1869	56	13,891
		Diocese of Dallas	Dallas	1895	65	32,062
		Diocese of Fort Worth	Fort Worth	1983	15	4,674
		Diocese of Kansas	Topeka	1864	44	10,743
		Diocese of Northwest Texas	Lubbock	1958	32	6,541
		Diocese of Oklahoma	Oklahoma City	1937	69	16,737
		Diocese of the Rio Grande	Albuquerque	1881	59	10,803
		Diocese of Texas	Houston	1849	151	75,421
		Diocese of West Missouri	Kansas City, MO	1890	48	9,950
		Diocese of West Texas	San Antonio	1874	88	23,141
		Diocese of Western Kansas	Salina	1971	29	1,397
		Diocese of Western Louisiana	Pineville (Offices) Shreveport (Cathedral)	1979	44	8,754
Province VIII	Province of the Pacific	Diocese of Alaska	Fairbanks	1971	49	6,927
		Diocese of Arizona	Phoenix	1959	58	21,375
		Diocese of California	San Francisco	1857	79	24,740
		Diocese of Eastern Oregon	The Dalles	1970	22	2,026
		Diocese of El Camino Real	Salinas (Offices) San Jose(Cathedral)	1980	43	11,483
		Diocese of Hawaii	Honolulu	1966	34	6,590
		Diocese of Idaho	Boise	1867	30	4,747
		Diocese of Los Angeles	Los Angeles (Diocesan seat in Echo Park neighborhood; procathedral in downtown LA)	1895	132	51,307
		Diocese of Micronesia[3]			2	249
		Diocese of Navajoland	Farmington	1978	11	664
		Diocese of Nevada	Las Vegas	1903	30	5,595
		Diocese of Northern California	Sacramento	1910	67	13,406
		Diocese of Olympia	Seattle	1910	92	25,358
		Diocese of Oregon	Portland, OR	1854	71	15,595
		Diocese of San Diego	San Diego	1973	46	14,541
		Diocese of San Joaquin	Fresno	1961	19	1,984
		Diocese of Spokane	Spokane	1892	37	5,323
		Diocese of Taiwan	Taipei	1954	15	1,129
		Diocese of Utah	Salt Lake City		23	5,361
Province IX	Province of Latin America	Diocese of Colombia	Bogotá	1964	29	3,019
		Diocese of the Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	1960	60	5,530
		Diocese of Central Ecuador	Quito	1970	20	1,502
		Diocese of Litoral Ecuador	Guayaquil	1988	26	9,546
		Diocese of Honduras	San Pedro Sula	1978	118	19,455
		Diocese of Puerto Rico	San Juan	1920	50	5,099
		Diocese of Venezuela	Caracas	1972	25	1,080

Former provinces and dioceses[]

• Diocese of Central America, now part of the Anglican Communion
• Episcopal Diocese of Duluth (1907–44, reunited with Diocese of Minnesota)
• Episcopal Eastern Diocese (1811-1843, split into the dioceses of Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Rhode Island)
• Diocese of Mexico (1973–85, now part of the Anglican Communion)
• Diocese of the Philippines (1990, now autonomous province)
• Diocese of Quincy (1877-2013, merged with the diocese of Chicago following a schism)
• Diocese of South Florida (1922-1969, divided into dioceses of Central Florida, Southwest Florida and Southeast Florida)
• Diocese of Western Colorado (1892-1898, 1907–1919, merged into Diocese of Colorado)
• Missionary District of Western Nebraska (1889-1943, merged into diocese of Nebraska)
• (1911-1918, merged into diocese of Oklahoma)

Military diocese[]

• Episcopal Diocese of the Armed Services and Federal Ministries

Dioceses no longer in existence[]

• Duluth reunited with Minnesota in 1943.
• Eastern Diocese comprised all of New England except Connecticut. By 1843, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Rhode Island had their own dioceses and the Eastern Diocese became Massachusetts^[4]
• Analogously, the Episcopal Diocese of Illinois formerly comprised all of Illinois. In 1877, the diocese was divided into three parts, with the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago assuming the legal succession of the former statewide diocese, and the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield and the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy becoming independent. Quincy reunited with Chicago in 2013.^[5]
• South Florida see Central Florida, Southeast Florida and Southwest Florida
• The Platte, renamed Laramie, Kearney, and Western Nebraska. In 1943 recombined with Nebraska
• Western Colorado reunited with Colorado in 1919.

Formerly missionary districts[]

The following were founded as missionary districts of the Episcopal Church but are now full, independent Provinces of the Anglican Communion.

• The Episcopal Church of the Philippines, established during the American Colonial Era of the Philippines
• The Anglican Province of Mexico
• The Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil
• The Anglican Church in Central America, formed from the missionary dioceses of Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama,

See also[]

• List of the Episcopal cathedrals of the United States
• List of Episcopal bishops of the United States

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dioceses of the Episcopal Church.

• Browse by Province — Provides a short description, map, and list of dioceses for each of the nine provinces.
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