Episcopal Diocese of Virginia

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The Diocese of Virginia is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America encompassing 38 counties in the northern and central parts of the state of Virginia. It is one of the nine original Dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

The diocese has over 89,000 members in 197 congregations, and is thus the largest diocese in the Episcopal Church (USA). The see city is Richmond. The current diocesan bishop is The Rt. Rev. Peter James Lee, 12th Bishop of Virginia. The diocese also has a suffragan bishop, The Rt. Rev. David Colin Jones, and a bishop coadjutor, The Rt. Rev. Shannon S. Johnston. Bishop Johnston, 48, served as rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Tupelo, Mississippi prior to his election in January 2007. He was consecrated on Saturday, May 26, 2007 at Washington National Cathedral. Johnston will succeed Bishop Lee upon his retirement as diocesan bishop which, by canon, will occur no later than 2010.

The diocese does not have a conventional cathedral church, rather an open-air cathedral, the Cathedral Shrine of the Transfiguration (Shrine Mont), which was consecrated in 1925. Shrine Mont in Orkney Springs, Virginia is also the site of a diocesan retreat and camp center. The diocese also operates the Virginia Diocesan Center at Roslyn in western Richmond, a conference center overlooking the James River.

Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS), the largest accredited Episcopal seminary in the United States is located in within the diocese in Alexandria, Virginia.

• Diocesan offices are located in the Mayo Memorial Church House, 110 West Franklin Street, Richmond, VA 23220-5095; phone 804-643-8451, 800-DIOCESE; fax 804-644-6928.

Contents 1 Bishops of Virginia 2 Episcopal College Ministries in the Diocese of Virginia 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Bishops of Virginia

These are the bishops who have served the Diocese of Virginia:^[1]

1. James Madison (1790 - 1812)
2. Richard Channing Moore (1814 - 1841)
   *Willliam Meade, Assistant (1829 - 1841)
3. Willliam Meade (1841 - 1862)
   *John Johns, Assistant (1842 - 1862)
4. John Johns (1862 - 1876)
   *Francis McNeece Whittle, Assistant (1867 - 1876)
5. Francis McNeece Whittle (1876 - 1902)
   *Alfred Magill Randolph, Assistant (1883 - 1892); named bishop of Southern Virginia
   *John Brockenbrough Newton, Assistant/Coadjutor (1894 - 1897)
   *Robert Atkinson Gibson, Coadjutor (1897 - 1902)
6. Robert Atkinson Gibson (1902 - 1919)
   *Arthur Selden Lloyd, Coadjutor, (1909 - 1911?)
   *William Cabell Brown, Coadjutor (1914 - 1919)
7. William Cabell Brown (1919 - 1927)
   *Henry St. George Tucker, Coadjutor (1926 - 1927)
8. Henry St. George Tucker (1927 - 1943), elected presiding bishop in 1938
   *Frederick Deane Goodwin, Coadjutor (1930 - 1944)
9. Frederick Deane Goodwin (1944 - 1960)
   *Wiley Roy Mason, suffragan (1942 - 1951), assistant (1951 - 1968)
   *Robert Fisher Gibson, Jr., suffragan (1949 - 1954), Coadjutor (1954 - 1960)
   *Samuel Blackwell Chilton, suffragan (1960 - 1969)
10. Robert Fisher Gibson, Jr. (1961 - 1974)
    *Robert Bruce Hall, Coadjutor (1966 - 1974)
    *Philip Alan Smith, suffragan (1970 - 1972), elected bishop coadjutor of New Hampshire
    *John Alfred Baden, suffragan (1973 - 1979)
11. Robert Bruce Hall (1974 - 1985)
    *David Henry Lewis, Jr., suffragan (1980 - 1987)
    *Peter James Lee, Coadjutor (1984 - 1985)
12. Peter James Lee (1985 - )
    *Robert Poland Atkinson, Assistant (1989 - 1993)
    *F. Clayton Matthews, suffragan (1994 - 1998), named director of the Office of Pastoral Development
    *David Colin Jones, suffragan (1995 - )
    *Francis Campbell Gray, Assistant (1999 - 2007)
    *Shannon Sherwood Johnston, Coadjutor (2007 - )

[edit] Episcopal College Ministries in the Diocese of Virginia

• James Madison University: The Canterbury Episcopal Campus Ministry at JMU
• University of Virginia: UVA Canterbury Fellowship at St. Paul's Memorial Church
• The University of Mary Washington: The UMW Canterbury Club
• Randolph Macon College: at St. James-the-Less, Ashland
• Virginia Commonwealth University at Grace and Holy Trinity, Richmond

[edit] References

1. ^ The Episcopal Church Annual. Morehouse Publishing: New York, NY (2005)

[edit] External links

• Official Web site of the Diocese of Virginia
• List of Churches in the Diocese
• Shrine Mont: The Cathedral Shrine of the Transfiguration and a Retreat Center of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia
• Official Web site of the Episcopal Church

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