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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 ...
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.
VII Harrisburg/Central Pennsylvania (diocese's name changed 1971) [N 16] 618 Robert Bruce Hall: 461 490 500: 1966 XI Virginia: 619 George A. Taylor: 461 493 414: 1967 VI Easton: 620 Richard Beamon Martin: 461 486 478: 1967 Long Island (Suffragan) 621 John H. Burt: 461 494 409: 1967 VIII Ohio: 622 W. Moultrie Moore, Jr. 532 572 502: 1967 North ...
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.
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.
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 Southern Episcopal Church (SEC) is an Anglican Christian denomination established in Nashville, Tennessee in 1953, [1] and formally organised in 1962, in reaction to liberal political and theological trends within the Episcopal Church USA.