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The Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota is the
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of the
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with jurisdiction over the state of
North Dakota North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, So ...
plus
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. It has 19 congregations in North Dakota and one in
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. It is in Province VI and its
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, Gethsemane Episcopal Cathedral, is in Fargo, as are the diocesan offices. The most recent diocesan bishop, Michael G. Smith, retired on May 1, 2019, and was subsequently named an assisting bishop in the Diocese of Dallas. He is an enrolled member of the Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma and is a graduate of
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. In August 2019, Keith Whitmore, a retired Bishop of Eau Claire, was named assisting bishop in North Dakota. In February 2021, Thomas C. Ely, a retired
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, was elected bishop provisional.


List of bishops

The bishops of the diocese have been: # William D. Walker, 1883–1896 # Samuel Cook Edsall, 1899–1901 # Cameron D. Mann, 1902–1913 # John Poyntz Tyler, 1914–1931 # Frederick B. Bartlett, 1931–1935 # Douglass H. Atwill, 1937–1951 # Richard R. Emery, 1951–1964 # George T. Masuda, 1965–1979 # Harold A. Hopkins Jr., 1980–1988 # Andrew H. Fairfield, 1989–2003 # Michael G. Smith, 2004–2019 # Thomas C. Ely, Provisional Bishop, 2021- ''* Keith Whitmore, Assisting Bishop, 2019-''


Congregations

All Saint's, Minot
All Saint's, Valley City
Church of the Advent, Devils Lake
Church of the Cross, Selfridge
Church of the Good Shepherd, Lakota
Gethsemane Cathedral, Fargo
Grace Church, Jamestown
St. Gabriel's Camp, Solen
St. George's Episcopal Memorial Church, Bismarck
St. James’, Cannon Ball
St. John the Divine Episcopal Church (Moorhead, Minnesota)
St. John's, Dickinson
St. Luke's, Fort Yates
Sts. Mary and Mark, Oakes
St. Michaels and All Angel's, Cartwright
St. Paul's, Grand Forks
St. Paul's, White Shield
St. Peter's, Walhalla
St. Peter's, Williston
St. Stephen's, Fargo
St. Sylvan's, Dunseith
St. Thomas, Fort Totten


See also

* Succession of Bishops of The Episcopal Church (U.S.)


References


Further reading

*''God giveth the increase; the history of the Episcopal Church in North Dakota'', Robert P Wilkins and Wynona H Wilkins


External links


Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota website

Gethsemane Episcopal Cathedral website
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Journal of the Annual Convention, Diocese of North Dakota
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