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The Episcopal Diocese of Michigan is the Episcopal diocese comprising 70 congregations in the southeast part of Michigan. [1] The diocese traces its roots to the founding of St. Paul's, Detroit in 1824. It became a diocese of the Episcopal Church in 1836, one year before the State of Michigan
Emrich was elected suffragan bishop of Michigan on March 26, 1946; and then as coadjutor bishop on January 28, 1948, succeeding as diocesan on March 1, 1948, where he served till 1973. He was made Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1958. He was succeeded by H. Coleman McGehee Jr., who was elected in May 1971. [2]
Bonnie Anne Perry (born April 15, 1962) is a bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.She was elected the Diocese of Michigan's eleventh diocesan bishop on June 1, 2019, which made her the first woman and first openly lesbian priest elected as an Episcopal bishop in Michigan.
Province 5 (V), also called the Province of the Midwest, is one of nine ecclesiastical provinces making up the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.It comprises eleven dioceses across the six midwestern states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
Initially part of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, it was designated a Missionary District in 1892, and became a separate diocese in 1895 as the Episcopal Diocese of Marquette. [1] The diocese was renamed the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan on June 2, 1937. The diocese is one of the smallest, in number of congregants, in the Episcopal ...
After joining the Episcopal Church, Gepert entered the Virginia Theological Seminary, graduating with a Master of Divinity in 1985, after which he was ordained deacon and priest that same year in the Diocese of Washington. Gepert served as rector of St Paul's Church in Baden, Maryland, and St Mary's Church in Aquasco, Maryland, between 1985 and ...
The Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Michigan was the Episcopal diocese in the northern two-thirds of the eastern half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, not including the greater Detroit area, which is in the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan. The diocese was headquartered in Saginaw, Michigan. It was a relatively new diocese, having been spun off ...
From 1996 to 2006, Leidel served as the first bishop of the newly created Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Michigan. In 2007, he was named Congregation Coach of the Anglican Diocese of Huron. He was elected to his final position in 2010. Leidel and his wife, Ira Leidel, resided in Glendale, Wisconsin. He was a published author of two books.