Episcopal Diocese of California
Bishop of California | |
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Bishopric | |
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Incumbent: Marc Andrus | |
Location | |
Country | United States |
Territory | Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo |
Ecclesiastical province | VIII |
Statistics | |
Congregations | 75 (2022) |
Members | 17,930 (2022) |
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First holder | William Ingraham Kip |
Denomination | Episcopal Church |
Established | February 5, 1857 |
Diocese | California |
Cathedral | Grace Cathedral |
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Website | |
diocal.org |
The Episcopal Diocese of California is an ecclesiastical territory or
History
The founding Episcopal diocese in the state, once encompassing all of California, today the diocese comprises
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The eighth and current bishop of California is Marc Andrus, formerly suffragan bishop of Alabama, who was invested with the office on July 22, 2006, succeeding William E. Swing. The Diocesan Convention elected Austin K. Rios as the next bishop on December 2, 2023. Bishop Rios was consecrated at Grace Cathedral on May 4, 2024, and currently serves as Bishop Coadjutor in preparation to succeed Bishop Andrus as the ninth bishop in July, 2024.
2006 bishop election controversy
In October 2004, Swing announced his retirement at the diocesan convention. By early 2006, after a search process, a slate of seven finalists were presented to the diocese as candidates to succeed him.[3] Among the seven finalists were a lesbian and two gay men in long-term relationships with their partners. None of the seven candidates on the ballot had made an affirmation to the Church that their relationship was celibate. Resolution 1.10 of the 1998 Lambeth Conference, a consultative body of the wider Anglican Communion without jurisdictional authority for any national Church, had declared abstinence to be "right" for those not called to heterosexual marriage.
This election became widely watched by many in the
Marc Andrus,
Affiliated Schools
The diocese operates The Episcopal School for Deacons as a college for training deacons. The school is located on the grounds of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California, two blocks to the north of the University of California, Berkeley.
List of diocesan Bishops of California
Bishops of California | ||||
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From | Until | Incumbent | Notes | |
1857 | 1893 | William Ingraham Kip | Missionary Bishop to California, 1853–1856; died in office. | |
1893 | 1924 | William Ford Nichols | Coadjutor 1890-1893 | |
1924 | 1940 | Edward L. Parsons | Coadjutor 1919-1924 | |
1941 | 1958 | Karl M. Block | Coadjutor 1938-1940, died in Grace Cathedral on September 20, 1958 | |
1958 | 1966 | James Pike | Coadjutor 1958, resigned following censure for radical theological views. | |
1967 | 1979 | C. Kilmer Myers | Previously suffragan bishop in Michigan. | |
1981 | 2006 | William E. Swing | Coadjutor 1979 | |
2006 | present | Marc Handley Andrus
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Previously suffragan bishop in Alabama 2002-2006. | |
2024 | present | Austin Keith Rios | Bishop Coadjutor. |
List of suffragan and assistant bishops
Suffragan and assistant bishops in California | |||
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From | Until | Incumbent | Notes |
1951 | 1958 | Henry H. Shires, suffragan bishop | |
1960 | 1978 | Richard Millard, suffragan bishop | previously bishop over Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe. |
2008 | 2009 | Steven Charleston, assistant bishop | resigned.[8] |
References
- ^ a b "Fran Toy, Associate Clergy". St. John's. Retrieved 2024-05-08.
- ^ "Episcopal News Service: Press Release # 060810-04". episcopalarchives.org. Retrieved 2024-05-08.
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20060521234526/http://www.bishopsearch.org/
- ^ San Francisco Chronicle – Episcopalians avoid rift in picking bishop
- ^ BBC News – Bishop vote avoids gay clergy row, May 6, 2006
- ^ Episcopal News Service – California diocese elects Marc Andrus as bishop Archived 2006-05-19 at the Wayback Machine, May 7, 2006
- ^ Washington Post – Calif. Episcopalians Elect New Bishop
- ^ Diocese of California – Bishop Steven Charleston announces transition