Ecclesiastical provinces and dioceses of the Episcopal Church

The Episcopal Church (TEC) is governed by a General Convention and consists of 99 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

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 NameDioceseSee cityFoundedParishes and missions (2021)[1]Active baptized members (2021)[1]Average worship attendance (2021)[1]Diocese Map
Province I Province of New England Diocese of Connecticut Hartford 1785 156 40,354 6,196
Diocese of Maine Portland, ME 1820 58 9,090 2,268
Diocese of Massachusetts Boston 1784 162 50,566 7,049
Diocese of New Hampshire Concord 1832 44 11,057 2,096
Diocese of Rhode Island Providence 1790 52 13,997 2,696
Diocese of Vermont Burlington 1832 45 4,743 1,112
Diocese of Western Massachusetts Springfield, MA 1901 50 12,024 2,139
Province II The International Atlantic Province

or

Province of New York and New Jersey

 Diocese of Albany Albany 1868 106 10,501 2,684
Diocese of Central New York Syracuse 1868 82 9,776 2,045
Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe Paris 1859 20 2,374 522
Diocese of Cuba Havana 1901 44 1,580 621
Diocese of Haiti Port-au-Prince 1861 120 97,909 10,160
Diocese of Long Island Garden City 1868 130 38,482 5,764
Diocese of New Jersey Trenton 1785 136 33,769 6,469
Diocese of New York New York City 1787 191 45,112 6,945
Diocese of Newark Newark 1874 96 21,132 3,030
Diocese of Rochester Rochester 1931 51 7,312 1,721
Diocese of the Virgin Islands Charlotte Amalie 1985 13 2,186 711
Diocese of Western New York[note 1] Buffalo 1839 56 7,081 1,544
Province III Province of Washington Diocese of Bethlehem Bethlehem 1871 57 8,239 1,605
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania Harrisburg 1904 62 9,115 2,467
Diocese of Delaware Wilmington 1785 33 8,009 1,696
Diocese of Easton Easton 1888 38 7,233 1,411
Diocese of Maryland Baltimore 1780 101 31,968 4,181
Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania[note 1] Erie 1910 32 2,834 823
Diocese of Pennsylvania Philadelphia 1784 133 35,606 5,551
Diocese of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh 1865 34 9,089 1,431
Diocese of Southern Virginia Norfolk 1892 101 22,507 4,619
Diocese of Southwestern Virginia Roanoke 1919 51 9,526 1,911
Diocese of Virginia Richmond (offices)
Orkney Springs (cathedral shrine)		 1785 180 65,056 11,453
Diocese of Washington Washington, D.C. 1895 85 33,265 6,150
Diocese of West Virginia Charleston, WV 1877 60 6,405 1,373
Province IV Province of Sewanee Diocese of Alabama Birmingham 1844 88 30,500 5,209
Diocese of Atlanta Atlanta 1907 91 45,161 6,688
Diocese of Central Florida Orlando 1969 81 23,664 6,960
Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast Pensacola (offices)
Mobile (cathedral)		 1970 61 17,474 3,092
Diocese of East Carolina Kinston 1863 67 14,852 3,476
Diocese of East Tennessee Knoxville 1985 46 13,740 2,928
Diocese of Florida Jacksonville 1838 61 23,075 4,902
Diocese of Georgia Savannah 1823 66 12,804 2,745
Diocese of Kentucky Louisville 1832 34 6,898 1,555
Diocese of Lexington Lexington 1896 34 6,184 1,231
Diocese of Louisiana New Orleans 1838 46 14,686 2,437
Diocese of Mississippi Jackson, MS 1850 82 17,648 3,471
Diocese of North Carolina Raleigh 1823 109 44,695 6,003
Diocese of South Carolina Charleston, SC 1785 31 7,254 1,956
Diocese of Southeast Florida Miami 1969 75 28,336 5,618
Diocese of Southwest Florida Parrish (offices)
St. Petersburg (cathedral)		 1969 78 25,934 6,499
Diocese of Tennessee Nashville 1834 45 15,665 3,347
Diocese of Upper South Carolina Columbia 1922 59 21,765 4,530
Diocese of West Tennessee Memphis 1985 29 6,736 1,375
Diocese of Western North Carolina Asheville 1922 60 13,229 3,759
Province V Province of the Midwest Diocese of Chicago Chicago 1823 120 28,531 5,243
Diocese of Eastern Michigan[note 2] Saginaw 1994 43 4,071 3,312
Diocese of Eau Claire[note 3] Eau Claire 1929 19 987 349
Diocese of Fond du Lac[note 3] Fond du Lac 1875 32 3,777 936
Diocese of Indianapolis[note 4] Indianapolis 1849 48 8,264 2,081
Diocese of Michigan Detroit 1832 74 14,675 3,205
Diocese of Milwaukee[note 3] Milwaukee 1835 48 6,833 1,929
Diocese of Missouri St. Louis 1841 41 9,264 1,915
Diocese of Northern Indiana[note 4] South Bend 1888 33 3,470 1,031
Diocese of Northern Michigan Marquette 1895 21 1,008 289
Diocese of Ohio Cleveland 1818 82 14,895 2,966
Diocese of Southern Ohio Cincinnati 1875 73 16,688 3,787
Diocese of Springfield Springfield, IL 1877 33 3,559 853
Diocese of Western Michigan[note 2] Portage
Kalamazoo (offices)		 1874 56 6,907 2,046
Province VI Province of the Northwest Diocese of Colorado Denver 1875 93 21,990 4,867
Diocese of Iowa Des Moines (offices, one cathedral)
Davenport (cathedral)		 1854 58 6,068 1,385
Episcopal Church in Minnesota Minneapolis (offices, one cathedral)
Faribault (cathedral)		 1859 91 16,232 3,137
Diocese of Montana Helena 1904 32 4,046 815
Diocese of Nebraska Omaha 1865 51 6,843 1,558
Diocese of North Dakota Fargo 1883 18 2,236 416
Diocese of South Dakota Sioux Falls 1971 77 6,507 1,319
Diocese of Wyoming Casper (offices)
Laramie (cathedral)		 1909 44 5,850 1,206
Province VII Province of the Southwest Diocese of Arkansas Little Rock 1869 54 13,056 2,460
Diocese of Dallas Dallas 1895 63 29,005 5,721
Diocese of Kansas Topeka 1864 44 7,757 1,663
Diocese of Northwest Texas Lubbock 1958 28 4,924 1,080
Diocese of Oklahoma Oklahoma City 1937 66 14,070 3,215
Diocese of the Rio Grande Albuquerque 1881 48 9,848 1,967
Diocese of Texas Houston 1849 166[note 5] 77,212[note 5] 13,037[note 5]
Diocese of West Missouri Kansas City, MO 1890 47 8,807 1,879
Diocese of West Texas San Antonio 1874 85 19,947 4,748
Diocese of Western Kansas Salina 1971 24 1,267 379
Diocese of Western Louisiana Pineville (offices)
Shreveport (cathedral)		 1979 42 8,074 2,020
Province VIII Province of the Pacific Diocese of Alaska Fairbanks 1971 46 5,950 615
Diocese of Arizona Phoenix 1959 58 18,472 4,182
Diocese of California San Francisco 1857 75 21,293 3,800
Diocese of Eastern Oregon The Dalles 1970 20 1,770 478
Diocese of El Camino Real Salinas (offices)
San Jose (cathedral)		 1980 41 6,600 1,806
Diocese of Hawaii Honolulu 1966 35 6,029 1,535
Diocese of Idaho Boise 1867 27 3,832 807
Diocese of Los Angeles Los Angeles
(diocesan seat in Echo Park neighborhood; pro-cathedral in downtown L.A.)		 1895 128 44,077 7,781
Diocese of Micronesia[6] 2 218 54
Diocese of Navajoland Farmington 1978 10 757 97
Diocese of Nevada Las Vegas 1903 29 4,862 1,278
Diocese of Northern California Sacramento 1910 65 10,666 2,465
Diocese of Olympia Seattle 1910 90 21,873 3,868
Diocese of Oregon Portland, OR 1854 70 12,543 2,330
Diocese of San Diego San Diego 1973 42 10,919 2,617
Diocese of San Joaquin Fresno 1961 19 1,786 575
Diocese of Spokane Spokane 1892 33 3,861 964
Diocese of Taiwan Taipei 1954 15 1,144 578
Diocese of Utah Salt Lake City 1867 22 4,282 861
Province IX Province of Latin America Diocese of Colombia Bogotá 1964 35 2,552 609
Diocese of the Dominican Republic Santo Domingo 1960 65 3,799 1,676
Diocese of Central Ecuador Quito 1970 11 708 51
Diocese of Litoral Ecuador Guayaquil 1988 26 7,770 639
Diocese of Honduras San Pedro Sula 1978 110 33,088 2,871
Diocese of Puerto Rico San Juan 1920 51 4,441 1,348
Diocese of Venezuela Caracas 1972 N/A N/A N/A

Former provinces and dioceses

Military diocese

Dioceses no longer in existence

Formerly missionary districts

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

See also

Notes
  1. Since 2018, the dioceses of Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania have been in formal partnership and shared a bishop but have not merged.[2]
  2. Since 2019, the dioceses of Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan have been in formal partnership and shared a bishop but have not merged.[3]
  3. Since 2021, the dioceses of Eau Claire and Fond du Lac have been in formal partnership and shared a bishop, and both have been in formal discernment about their future with the Diocese of Milwaukee, but none of the three have merged.[4]
  4. Since 2023, the dioceses of Indianapolis and Northern Indiana have been discerning a merger.[5]
  5. These figures combine those reported for the Diocese of Texas and the Episcopal Church in North Texas, which reunited in 2022

References
  1. "Table of Statistics of the Episcopal Church". Office of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church. October 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  2. "Western New York, Northwestern Pennsylvania ratify partnership". Episcopal News Service. Oct 26, 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  3. Paulsen, David (Jun 14, 2019). "Two Michigan dioceses to share bishop, charting path forward together in spirit of innovation". Episcopal News Service. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  4. Paulsen, David (Mar 16, 2021). "With Diocese of Eau Claire at a crossroads, Wisconsin's three dioceses eye greater collaboration". Episcopal News Service. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  5. "Two Episcopal dioceses in Indiana begin reunification discernment". Episcopal News Service. Jan 30, 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
  6. "Episcopal Church in Micronesia homepage". Archived from the original on 2013-05-01. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
  7. The Episcopal Church Annual, 2004, Harrisburg: Morehouse Publishing, p. 246
  8. "Chicago, Quincy Dioceses To Reunite on September 1". Episcopal Diocese of Chicago. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
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