The Diocese of the Carolinas is a diocese of the
Anglican Church in North America
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, comprising 34 parishes in the American states of
North Carolina
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,
South Carolina
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, anthem = " Carolina";" South Carolina On My Mind"
, Former = Province of South Carolina
, seat = Columbia
, LargestCity = Charleston
, LargestMetro = ...
,
Georgia
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* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
Georgia may also refer to:
Places
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* Related to the ...
,
Tennessee
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and
Kentucky
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. Its first bishop is
Steve Wood. He is also the rector of St. Andrew's Church, in
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
David C. Bryan was elected Suffragan Bishop in June 2016, with
Thaddeus R. Barnum as Assisting Bishop.
The diocese was formed when Anglican clergy and lay people, many of whom had left the
Episcopal Church, began to gather to discuss starting a new diocese in the Anglican Church in North America. Chief among the architects of new diocese were Filmore Strunk, rector of All Saints' Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Steve Wood, rector of St. Andrew's Church in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.
The new diocese was approved unanimously at the Provincial Assembly of the ACNA, on 6 June 2012, with Steve Wood as their first bishop elected. He was consecrated on 25 August 2012, at
St. Andrew's Church in Mount Pleasant, by Archbishop
Robert Duncan, Archbishop-elect of Uganda,
Stanley Ntagali, Bishop
Roger Ames
Roger Copeland Ames (born 7 December 1942) is an American Anglican priest. He is the first bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes in the Anglican Church in North America, after being a suffragan bishop for the Convocation of Anglican ...
, Bishop
John Guernsey and Bishop Alphonsa Gadsden, all three from the ACNA.
Steve Wood Ordained as First Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Carolinas, 25 August 2012
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Parishes
As of 2022, the Diocese of the Carolinas had 34 parishes. Notable parishes in the diocese include:
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Anglican dioceses established in the 21st century
Anglican realignment dioceses
Dioceses of the Anglican Church in North America
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