Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey

Diocese of New Jersey
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Location
Ecclesiastical province	Province II
Statistics
Congregations	149
Information
Rite	Episcopal
Cathedral	Trinity Cathedral
Current leadership
Bishop	Rt. Rev. William H. Stokes
Map
Location of the Diocese of New Jersey
Website
newjersey.anglican.org

Trinity Cathedral

The Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey forms part of Province II of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. It is made up of the southern and central New Jersey counties of Union, Middlesex, Somerset, Hunterdon, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean, Burlington, Camden, Atlantic, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland, and Cape May. It is one of the nine original Dioceses of the Episcopal Church.

The diocese originally included all of the state of New Jersey, but was divided in 1874, when the northern third of the state split off to form the Diocese of Northern New Jersey, which was later renamed to become the Diocese of Newark. The Diocese of New Jersey has the sixth-largest number of parishes in the Episcopal Church, and the eighth-largest number of baptized communicants. It has a reputation for broad ethnic and socio-economic diversity and strong youth ministry programs.

The Diocese of New Jersey currently has a total of 149 congregations. The Diocese is under the jurisdiction of the Right Reverend William H. Stokes, Bishop of New Jersey, whose seat is at Trinity Cathedral, Trenton. The largest parish in the diocese is Trinity Church, Princeton.

The diocese had 53,000 members in 2003 and 43,000 in 2013.

Bishops of New Jersey

• John Croes 1815-1832 (1st Bishop of New Jersey)
• George Washington Doane 1832-1859 (2nd Bishop of New Jersey)
• William Henry Odenheimer 1859-1874 (3rd Bishop of New Jersey and 1st Bishop of Newark)
• John Scarborough 1875-1914 (4th Bishop of New Jersey)
• Paul Matthews 1915-1937 (5th Bishop of New Jersey)
  • Albion W. Knight, Coadjutor, 1923-1935
  • Ralph Ernest Urban, Suffragan, 1932-1935
• Wallace John Gardner 1937-1954 (6th Bishop of New Jersey)
• Alfred L. Banyard 1955-1973 (7th Bishop of New Jersey)
• Albert W. Van Duzer 1973-1982 (8th Bishop of New Jersey)
• G. P. Mellick Belshaw 1983-1994 (9th Bishop of New Jersey)
• Joe Morris Doss 1995-2002 (10th Bishop of New Jersey)
• George Edward Councell 2003–2013 (11th Bishop of New Jersey)
• William H. Stokes 2013–present (12th Bishop of New Jersey)

External links

• Diocese of New Jersey website
• Diocese of New Jersey Youth Ministry website
• Journal of the Annual Convention, Diocese of New Jersey
• Service Book for the Diocese of New Jersey, Authorized by Wallace J. Gardner (1940), digitized by Richard Mammana