Episcopal Diocese of Maryland

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Diocese of Maryland

Dioecesis Terrae Mariae
Eugene T. Sutton
CoadjutorCarrie Schofield-Broadbent
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Location of the Diocese of Maryland
Location of the Diocese of Maryland
Website
episcopalmaryland.org

The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland forms part of

Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Having been divided twice, it no longer includes all of Maryland and now consists of the central, northern, and western Maryland counties of Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Frederick, Garrett, Harford, Howard, and Washington, as well as the independent city of Baltimore
.

History

Cathedral of the Incarnation

The Diocese of Maryland is one of the

Captain John Smith oversaw the first Christian worship in the upper Chesapeake Bay.[1] In 1692, a law passed by the province's general assembly established the Church of England and the colony, which was divided into ten counties, was divided into 30 parishes (See List of the original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland
). Sometimes the parish church was centrally located; other times multiple churches or chapels served distant population centers within the parish.

In 1780, a meeting in

List of post 1692 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland
).

In 1789, the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America was founded. The diocese's first bishop,

Presiding Bishop. He was the first elected primate of the Episcopal Church; for his predecessors, the senior member of the House of Bishops
, automatically assumed the position.

The diocese has been divided twice. First in 1868, the

District of Columbia and adjacent (and increasingly suburban) Montgomery and Prince George's, along with southern Maryland's Charles and St. Mary's counties became the Diocese of Washington.[2]

On March 29, 2008, Eugene Taylor Sutton was elected as the 14th bishop of the diocese;

standing committee of the diocese requested that Cook resign her position.[7] This was followed by the Presiding Bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori, placing formal restrictions on Cook preventing her from presenting herself as an ordained minister of the Episcopal Church.[8] On May 1, 2015, Jefferts Schori announced that both she and the Diocese of Maryland had accepted Cook's resignation as a bishop and as an employee of the diocese. Moreover, both parties reached an accord where Cook received a "Sentence of Disposition" which stripped Cook of her ordained status.[9]

The Diocese of Maryland currently has 117

St. Paul Street in north Baltimore, near the neighborhoods of Roland Park, Guilford and Charles Village
.

Coat of arms

The arms of the diocese were designed by

pheon or arrowhead, taken from the arms of Bishop Claggett.[10]

Bishops

The following have served as Bishop of Maryland:

Bishops of Maryland
From Until Incumbent Notes
1792 1816 Thomas John Claggett First bishop of the Episcopal Church to be consecrated on American soil. Also Chaplain of the United States Senate (1800−1801).
1816 1827 James Kemp
1830 1838 William Murray Stone
1840 1879 William Rollinson Whittingham
1879 1883 William Pinkney Coadjutor Bishop from 1870.
1885 1911 William Paret
1911 1929 John Gardner Murray Also Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (1926−1929).
1929 1943
Edward Trail Helfenstein
 		Coadjutor Bishop from 1926.
1943 1963
Noble Cilley Powell
 		Coadjutor Bishop from 1941.
1963 1971 Harry Lee Doll Coadjutor Bishop from 1960.
1972 1985 David Keller Leighton Coadjutor Bishop from 1968.
1986 1994 Albert Theodore Eastman Coadjutor Bishop from 1982.
1995 2007 Robert Wilkes Ihloff
2008 present
Eugene Taylor Sutton
 		Retirement announced for 2024.[11]

On 25 March 2023 the Rev. Canon Carrie Schofield-Broadbent was elected bishop coadjutor.[12] She will succeed the Rt. Rev. Eugene Sutton as Bishop of Maryland upon his retirement in 2024 and will be the first woman to serve in that role.[13]

Notes

  1. ^ "History of the Diocese of Maryland". Archived from the original on 2008-02-21. Retrieved 2008-03-09.
  2. ^ "Episcopal Diocese to be Divided" (PDF). The New York Times. June 2, 1895. p. 32. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
  3. ^ "Maryland elects Eugene Sutton as 14th bishop" Archived 2008-04-13 at the Wayback Machine Episcopal News Service, March 29, 2008
  4. ^ "Episcopal diocese elects Cook as bishop suffragan". The Baltimore Sun. May 8, 2014. p. 7.
  5. ^ Broadwater, Luke (January 4, 2015). "Bishop summons clergy to meeting after death of bicyclist in Baltimore". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  6. ^ Shen, Fern; Reutter, Mark (January 9, 2015). "Episcopal bishop to be charged with DUI, manslaughter and leaving scene of accident". Baltimore Brew. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  7. ^ Letter to Bishop Cook Requesting Resignation (PDF), Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, archived from the original (PDF) on February 17, 2015, retrieved February 16, 2015
  8. ^ Office of Public Affairs (2015-02-10). "Presiding Bishop further restricts ministry of Heather Cook". The Episcopal Church. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  9. ^ Schjonberg, Mary Frances (2015-05-01). "Dual actions end Heather Cook's ordained ministry, employment". Episcopal News Service. Retrieved 2022-08-19.
  10. ^ Journal of the One Hundred and Thirty-Third Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Maryland. Baltimore: the Diocese of Maryland. 1916. pp. 24–5.
  11. ^ Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, Search for the Fifteenth Bishop of Maryland. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  12. ^ Episcopal News Service, "Maryland diocese elects Carrie Schofield-Broadbent bishop coadjutor", 27 March 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  13. ^ The Baltimore Sun, "Maryland Episcopalians choose next bishop, first woman elected to position", 27 March 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2023.

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