Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota

Location of the Diocese of Minnesota

The Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America which has jurisdiction over all of Minnesota, except Clay County, which is in the Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota, and Browns Valley, which is in the Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota. It is in Province VI. It has two cathedrals: the Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour in Faribault and St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Minneapolis. Its offices are in Minneapolis. It has 106 congregations representing 22,000 members. Henry Benjamin Whipple was the first bishop of the diocese. The Rt. Rev Brian Prior is the current bishop. For a period of time the diocese was split in two, but the Diocese of Duluth was reunited with the Diocese of Minnesota in the 1940s.

Bishops of Minnesota

• Henry Benjamin Whipple 1859 - 1901
• Samuel Cook Edsall 1901 - 1917
• Frank Arthur McElwain 1917 - 1943
• Steven Edwards Keeler 1943 - 1956
• Hamilton Hyde Kellogg 1956 - 1971
• Philip Frederick McNairy 1971 - 1978
• Robert Marshall Anderson 1978 - 1993
• James Louis Jelinek 1993 - 2010
• Brian Norman Prior 2010 -

Records

Records of the Episcopal Church, Diocese of Minnesota, are available at the Minnesota Historical Society, covering the period from the arrival of the first Episcopal missionaries into the area in the 1820s through the bishopric of Robert M. Anderson, which ended in 1993. They document the organization, administration, and history of the diocese and its parishes and missions through the records of the diocesan offices and parishes and the papers of numerous diocesan officials and leaders, including George Clinton Tanner, Stephen E. Keeler, Frederick F. Kramer, Hamilton Hyde Kellogg, Philip F. McNairy, and Robert M. Anderson. ^[1]

References

1. ^ Episcopal Church, Diocese of Minnesota Records

External links

• The Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota