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Episcopal Diocese Of San Joaquin
The Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin (EDSJ) is a diocese of the Episcopal Church (TEC), located in central California with its headquarters in Fresno. It can trace its roots back to the earliest days of American settlement in California. History In 1910, the Episcopal Diocese of California petitioned the General Convention to create the Missionary District of San Joaquin from a portion of its territory. The Diocese of California ceded 14 counties in central California (and the 23 Episcopal congregations within those counties) back to the General Convention. The General Convention formed those 14 counties into the Missionary District of San Joaquin. In 1961, the Missionary District of San Joaquin petitioned the General Convention for "consent to the formation of a new Diocese out of the whole of the Missionary District of San Joaquin." The General Convention accepted the petition and approved the proposed diocesan constitution and canons, thus forming the Episcopal Church's Dioces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province 8 Of The Episcopal Church In The United States Of America
Province 8 (VIII), also called the Province of the Pacific, is one of nine ecclesiastical provinces making up the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. It is composed of sixteen dioceses in the nine states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. Also part of the province are the Episcopal Diocese of Taiwan, which has been a diocese of the Church since 1960; and the Navajoland Area Mission which was established in 1979 to serve the specific spiritual and cultural needs of the Navajo Nation. The province encompasses more than a third of the land mass of the United States, and nearly twenty percent of the country's population. Because of its sheer size, the province claims to contain the most demographically diverse population in the world. The Rt. Rev. James Mathes of the Diocese of San Diego serves as President and D. Rebecca Snow of the Diocese of Oregon serves as Vice President. Dioceses of Province VIII * Diocese of Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katharine Jefferts Schori
Katharine Jefferts Schori (born March 26, 1954) is the former Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church of the United States. Previously elected as the 9th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada, she was the first woman elected as a primate in the Anglican Communion. Jefferts Schori was elected at the 75th General Convention on June 18, 2006, and invested at Washington National Cathedral on November 4, 2006, and continued until November 1, 2015, when Michael Bruce Curry was invested in the position. She took part in her first General Convention of the Episcopal Church as Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church in July 2009. Early and family life Of Irish and Swiss ancestry, Jefferts Schori was born in Pensacola, Florida to Keith Jefferts, an atomic physicist, and Elaine Ryan, a microbiologist. Jefferts Schori was first raised in the Catholic Church. In 1963, her parents brought her, at the age of eight, into the Episcopal Church (St. Andrew's Episcopal Churc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dioceses Of The Episcopal Church (United States)
The Episcopal Church (TEC) is governed by a General Convention and consists of 99 dioceses in the United States proper, plus eleven dioceses in other countries or outlying U.S. territories and the diocese of Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe, for a total of 2 dioceses. A diocese, which is led by a bishop, includes all the parishes and missions within its borders, which usually correspond to a state or a portion of a state. Some dioceses includes portions of more than one state. For example, the Diocese of Washington includes the District of Columbia and part of Maryland. Overview The naming convention for the domestic dioceses, for the most part, is after the state in which they are located or a portion of that state (for example, Northern Michigan or West Texas). Usually (though not always), in a state where there is more than one diocese, the area where the Episcopal Church (or Church of England before the American Revolution) started in that state is the diocese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Manuel Rivera
Victor Manuel Rivera (1916 – December 24, 2005) was a Puerto Rican Episcopalian priest and bishop. He served from 1968 to 1989 as the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin. Education and early career Rivera was born in Penuelas, Puerto Rico, where his father and four uncles were Episcopal priests. In 1944, he graduated from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California, and was ordained to the priesthood. From 1943 to 1944 he was vicar of Grace Church in Martinez, California, and from 1945 to 1968, he was rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Visalia, California. He also held diocesan offices in the Diocese of San Joaquin. Episcopacy In 1968, Rivera was elected third bishop of the Diocese of San Joaquin. He served until his retirement in January 1989, shortly after reaching the mandatory retirement age of 72. He was succeeded by bishop coadjutor John-David Schofield, who had been elected in the fall of 1988. By the end of Rivera's episco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumner F
Sumner may refer to: Places Antarctica * Mount Sumner, a mountain in the Rare Range, Antarctica * Sumner Glacier, southern Graham Land, Antarctica Australia * Sumner, Queensland, suburb of Brisbane New Zealand * Sumner, New Zealand, seaside suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand * Lake Sumner United States Inhabited places * Sumner, California, former name of Kern, California * Sumner, Florida * Sumner, Georgia * Sumner, Illinois * Sumner, Iowa * Sumner, Maine * Sumner, Michigan * Sumner, Mississippi * Sumner, Missouri * Sumner, Nebraska * Sumner, Oklahoma * Sumner, Oregon * Sumner, Portland, Oregon * Sumner, Texas * Sumner, Washington ** Sumner station, a train station in Sumner, Washington * Sumner, Barron County, Wisconsin, a town * Sumner (community), Barron County, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Sumner, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, a town * Sumner, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, a town * Sumner County, Kansas * Sumner County, Tennessee * Sumner Township, Michigan * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Childs Sanford
Louis Childs Sanford (July 27, 1867 - August 10, 1948) was missionary bishop of San Joaquin, California, in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Sanford, Louis Childs 1867 births 1948 deaths American Episcopal priests Episcopal bishops of San Joaquin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chester Talton
Chester Lovelle Talton (born September 22, 1941) was the Provisional Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin in the Episcopal Church. Personal life Born in El Dorado, Arkansas, Talton was ordained to the priesthood in February 1971, in the San Francisco-based Diocese of California. He married Karen Louise Warren in August 1963 and has four children from this union. Karen Talton died in 2003. Talton remarried in 2007, to April Grayson, a lay leader in the Diocese of Los Angeles. He is African American, and one of 37 black bishops who have been consecrated by the Episcopal Church. Education Talton studied at California State University, Hayward, California where he earned his B.S. in 1965, and Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California, where he earned his M.Div. in 1970, and ultimately his D.D. Positions held Positions held include Provisional Bishop, Diocese of San Joaquin, 2011 - 2014; Bishop Suffragan, Diocese of Los Angeles, 1991 to 2010; Rector, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episcopal Diocese Of Northern California
The Episcopal Diocese of Northern California, created in 1910, is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America with jurisdiction over the northern part of California. It is in Province 8 and its cathedral, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, is in Sacramento, as are the diocesan offices. List of bishops The bishops of Northern California have been:Episcopal Church Annual, 2006, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Morehouse Publishing, p. 301 # John Henry Ducachet Wingfield, (1874–1898), Missionary Bishop and first diocesan bishop # William Hall Moreland, Missionary Bishop (1899), second diocesan bishop (1910–1933) Archie W. N. Porter, bishop coadjutor 1933 # Archie W. N. Porter, (1933–1957)Clarence Haden, bishop coadjutor 1957 # Clarence Haden, (1958–1978) Edward McNair, suffragan bishop (1968–1972) # John L. Thompson, (1978–1991)Jerry A. Lamb, bishop coadjutor 1991 # Jerry A. Lamb, (1992–2006)Barry Leigh Beisner, bishop coadjutor 2006 # Barry Lei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry A
Jerry may refer to: Animals * Jerry (Grand National winner), racehorse, winner of the 1840 Grand National * Jerry (St Leger winner), racehorse, winner of 1824 St Leger Stakes Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Jerry'' (film), a 2006 Indian film * "Jerry", a song from the album ''Young and Free'' by Rock Goddess * Tom and Jerry (other) People * Jerry (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Harold A. Jerry, Jr. (1920–2001), New York politician * Thomas Jeremiah (d. 1775), commonly known simply as "Jerry", a free Negro in colonial South Carolina Places * Branche à Jerry, a tributary of the Baker River in Quebec and New Brunswick, Canada * Jerry, Washington, a community in the United States Other uses * Jerry (company) * Jerry (WWII), Allied nickname for Germans, originally from WWI but widely used in World War II * Jerry Rescue (1851), involving American slave William Henry, who called himself "Jerry" See also * Geri (disa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lodi, California
Lodi ( ) is a city located in San Joaquin County, California, San Joaquin County, California, in the center portion of California's Central Valley (California), Central Valley. The population was 62,134 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. The estimated population is approximately 67,586 according to 2019 census data. Lodi is the 132nd largest city in California based on official 2019 estimates from the US Census Bureau. Lodi is best known for wine grape production, although its vintages have historically been less prestigious than those of Sonoma County, California, Sonoma and Napa County, California, Napa counties. However, in recent years, the Lodi Appellation has become increasingly respected for its Zinfandel and other eclectic wine varietals, along with its focus on sustainability under the Lodi Rules program. National recognition came from the Creedence Clearwater Revival song "Lodi (Creedence Clearwater Revival song), Lodi" and continued with the "2015 Wine Reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Of Bishops
The House of Bishops is the third House in a General Synod of some Anglican churches and the second house in the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Composition of Houses of Bishops The composition of a House of Bishops varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Typically, they consist of s and/or s, diocesan bishops and somet ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John-David Schofield
John-David Mercer Schofield (October 6, 1938 – October 29, 2013) was a bishop-in-residence in the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). Schofield was the rector of St. Columba's Inverness in the Episcopal Diocese of California. He served as the fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin, from October 9, 1988, to October 22, 2011, when the diocese was part of the Episcopal Church. In 2007, due to theological disagreements, Schofield led the majority of the diocese to join the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone and become the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin. The diocese was a founding member of the Anglican Church in North America in June 2009. He served as the first bishop of the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin until his retirement in 2011, remaining as bishop-in-residence until his death. Schofield died in Fresno Fresno () is a major city in the San Joaquin Valley of California, United States. It is the county seat of Fresno County and the largest city in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
