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On February 21, 2004, he was consecrated a bishop by Frank Griswold, the then Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. [1] [4] He then served as coadjutor bishop to James E. Folts, the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas. [4] He took up the appointment of diocesan bishop in 2006, upon the retirement of Bishop Folts. [1]
The number references the sequence of consecration. Two capital letters before their number identify bishops consecrated for missionary work outside of the United States. "Diocese" refers to the diocese for which the individual was ordained. Note, this does not mean it was the only diocese that bishop presided over.
Matthew Davis Cowden is the VIII bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia.He was elected from a slate of three candidates by the 144th diocesan convention on September 25, 2021, and consecrated in Wesley Chapel on the campus of West Virginia Wesleyan University on March 12, 2022.
The following is a list of bishops who currently lead dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States and its territories. Also included in the list are suffragan bishops , provisional bishops , coadjutor bishops , and assistant bishops .
As of 2017, it had 87 churches, 26,000 active baptized members, and an Average Sunday Attendance of 10,592.The diocese and its parishes sponsor twenty-eight parochial schools and preschools, including TMI Episcopal (founded as "West Texas Military Academy"), a boarding college-preparatory school on the outskirts of San Antonio.
The geographic range of the Diocese of West Tennessee was originally part of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee, which was partitioned into three separate dioceses during 1982–1985. Phoebe A. Roaf is the current bishop of West Tennessee.
The Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (TEC). It encompasses all 55 counties of West Virginia. [1] The diocese has 66 congregations, including 38 parishes, 26 missions, and 2 other churches. [2]
She was consecrated as a bishop on May 15, 2010 by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori. [5] She retained the post until her election on November 6, 2021, as the Provisional Bishop of The Diocese of West Missouri by the diocesan convention meeting at Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kansas City, Missouri. Upon the completion of her ...