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A single diocese spanned the entire state until 1982, when the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee was created; the Diocese of Tennessee was again split in 1985 when the Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee was formed. [1] It is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The diocese includes 52 parishes and mission outposts.
In fact, one of the defecting churches, St. Andrew's in Nashville, an Anglo-Catholic parish since its 1960s relocation from a then-declining part of West Nashville to the affluent Green Hills neighborhood, was forced by the Tennessee Supreme Court to cede its property to the diocese in late 2012, and the following year, Bauerschmidt had the ...
VIII Utah; Dean, Episcopal Divinity School: 666 Frederick H. Belden: 461 517 561: 1971 X Rhode Island: 667 H. Coleman McGehee Jr. 461 490 463: 1971 VIII Michigan: 668 Morgan Porteus: 461 582 424: 1971 XI Connecticut: 669 Richard M. Trelease Jr. 461 526 621: 1971 III Rio Grande: 670 Harold Jones: 461 452 651: 1972 South Dakota (Suffragan) [N 60 ...
Don Edward Johnson (born 1949) is an American bishop of the Episcopal Church who served as the third Bishop of West Tennessee from 2001 until 2019. [1] Johnson was born in 1949 and was raised as a Southern Baptist.
Christ Church Cathedral in Nashville, Tennessee, is the cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. The congregation was founded in 1829 and became the diocesan cathedral, by designation, in 1997.
The Church of the Holy Trinity was originally organized on September 23, 1849 as "St. Paul's Mission on Summer Street" (now Fifth Avenue) at the desire of Reverend Charles S. Tomes, then rector of the nearby Christ Church Episcopal, Nashville's first Episcopal congregation, located on the corner of what is now Sixth Avenue North and Church Street.
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. It is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee on the close of St. Mary's Cathedral.
William Evan Sanders (December 25, 1919 – November 18, 2021) was an American Episcopalian bishop. He was the eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee from 1977 to 1985, and first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee from 1985 to 1992.