The Episcopal Diocese of Western Kansas, created in 1971, is the

diocese In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, pro ...

of the

Episcopal Church in the United States of America The Episcopal Church, based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere, is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces. The presiding bishop o ...

with jurisdiction over western

Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...

. It was formerly the Missionary District of Salina until 1960 and then the Missionary District of Western Kansas until 1971. It is in Province 7. Its

cathedral A cathedral is a church that contains the '' cathedra'' () of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually specific to those Christian denomination ...

, Christ Episcopal Cathedral, is in Salina. The diocesan offices are located in Hutchinson.Episcopal Church Annual, 2006, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Morehouse Publishing, p. 406-407

Current bishop

Bishop Mark Cowell was consecrated as the sixth diocesan bishop of Western Kansas on 1 December 2018.

List of bishops of Western Kansas

The bishops of Western Kansas have been:

Missionary

* Sheldon M. Griswold (1903–1917) * John C. Sage (1918–1919) * Robert H. Mize (1921–1938) * Shirley Hall Nichols (1943–1955) * Arnold M. Lewis (1956–1964) *

William Davidson William or Bill Davidson may refer to: Businessmen * Bill Davidson (businessman) (1922–2009), Michigan businessman and sports team owner ** William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan, named in honor of Bill Davidson * William Davidson ...

, last missionary bishop (1966–1971), first diocesan bishop (1971–1980)

Diocesan

, last missionary bishop (1966–1971), first diocesan bishop (1971–1980) # John F. Ashby (1981–1995) # Vernon E. Strickland (1995–2002) # James M. Adams (2002–2010), resigned in January, 2010 #

Michael Pierce Milliken Michael Pierce Milliken (born March 13, 1947) was the fifth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Kansas from 2011 until 2018. Biography Milliken was born on March 13, 1947, in Lexington, Kentucky. He studied at the University of Kentucky fr ...

(2011-2018) #

Mark Cowell Mark A. Cowell is the sixth and current bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Kansas. He was consecrated on December 1, 2018, succeeding Michael Milliken. Like many clergy in his largely rural diocese, Cowell is bi-vocational. In addition t ...

(2018- )

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