Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan

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Diocese of Northern Michigan
Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan seal.jpg
Location
Ecclesiastical province Province V
Statistics
Congregations 22 (2014)
Members 1,432 (2014)
Information
Rite Episcopal
Current leadership
Bishop Rayford J. Ray
Map
Location of the Diocese of Northern Michigan
Location of the Diocese of Northern Michigan
Website
www.upepiscopal.org

The Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (TEC) with canonical jurisdiction in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Initially part of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, it was designated a Missionary District in 1892, and became a separate diocese in 1895 as the Episcopal Diocese of Marquette.[1]

The diocese is one of the smallest, in number of congregants, in the Episcopal Church. It is headquartered in Marquette, Michigan. As of 2014 there were 22 churches in the diocese.

Bishop Jim Kelsey, the presiding bishop of the diocese, died in June 2007 in a car crash. At a diocesan convention in February 2009, Kevin Thew Forrester was elected the next bishop of the diocese. Any bishop's election requires the consent of the church's bishops along with the standing committees of the 110 dioceses and jurisdictions.[2] A majority of the dioceses' standing committees and a majority of the church's bishops rejected his election because of Forrester's practice of Zen Buddhist meditation, revisions that he made to the baptismal liturgy, and his beliefs about salvation.[2] After the deadline for consent passed, in July 2009, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori announced that Forrester had become the first bishop-elect in 77 years to have his election declared "null and void" by the church.[3] The last candidate rejected on strictly theological grounds was James DeKoven in 1875 for his high church practices.[2]

In December 2010, a diocesan convention elected Rayford Ray as bishop. His election was confirmed by the Episcopal Church, and after his consecration in May 2011 he become the 11th diocesan bishop of the diocese.[4][5][6]

Bishops

  • 1895/96-1919: Gershom Mott Williams (elected November 14, 1895, ordained May 1, 1896; resigned October 1919)
  • 1918-1929: Robert LeRoy Harris (February 1918 Coadjutor, October 1919 Bishop; resigned 1929)
  • 1929-1939: Hayward Ablewhite (elected December 1929; resigned when indicted in a defalcation and embezzlement case in October 1939, served nine months in state prison)
  • 1939-1942: Herman Page (father) († April 1942)
  • 1942-1964: Herman Page (son) (* May 3, 1892, † 1978)
  • 1964-1972: George Selway
  • 1972-1974: Samuel J. Wylie. († 1974)
  • 1975-1981: William A. Dimmick
  • 1982-1999: Thomas K. Ray
  • 1999-2007: Jim Kelsey
  • 2007-2011: vacant
  • 2011–present: Rayford J. Ray

References

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