Diocese of the Carolinas
Location
Ecclesiastical provinceAnglican Church in North America
Statistics
Parishes40[1]
Members9,769[1]
Information
RiteAnglican
CathedralCathedral Church of the Apostles, Columbia, South Carolina
Current leadership
BishopSteve Wood (diocesan)
David Bryan (suffragan)
Thad Barnum, Terrell Glenn (assisting)
Website
dioceseofthecarolinas.com

The Diocese of the Carolinas is a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America, comprising 40 parishes in the American states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Kentucky. 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 Terrell Glenn and 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, Bishop John Guernsey and Bishop Alphonsa Gadsden, all three from the ACNA.[2]

Parishes

As of 2022, the Diocese of the Carolinas had 40 parishes. Notable parishes in the diocese include:

Church Image City Year founded Year completed Notes
All Saints Church Pawleys Island, South Carolina 1739 1917
St. Andrew's Church Mount Pleasant, South Carolina 1835 1857
Holy Trinity Anglican Church Raleigh, North Carolina 2003 2015
Church of the Apostles Columbia, South Carolina 2004 1964 Diocesan cathedral


References

  1. 1 2 "Congregational Reporting: 2022 in Review" (PDF). Anglican Church in North America. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
  2. ↑ Steve Wood Ordained as First Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Carolinas, 25 August 2012



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