Episcopal Diocese of Nevada

The Episcopal Diocese of Nevada is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America comprising the entire State of Nevada.

The see city is Las Vegas. There is no cathedral in this diocese.

Under the leadership of its first diocesan bishop, Wesley Frensdorff, who served from 1972 to 1985, Nevada became a leader in the concept of Total Ministry, the "ministry of all the baptized," in which laity and clergy have a more equal share in ministry. [http://www.nvdiocese.org/RESOURCES/HISTORY/_HistoryDir.html The Bishops of the Diocese of Nevada] , Diocesan Web site]

The third bishop of Nevada, the Right Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori, was elected the 26th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church at the 2006 General Convention. She is the first female primate in the Anglican Communion.

On 12 October 2007 the Very Rev. Dan T. Edwards was elected fourth diocesan bishop of Nevada. Edwards, 57 when he was elected, was then rector of St. Francis' Episcopal Church in Macon, Georgia. If he receives consents from a majority of bishops with jurisdiction and diocesan standing committees, Edwards will be consecrated on 5 January 2008. [ [http://www.episcopalchurch.org/79901_90927_ENG_HTM.htm Nevada diocese elects Georgia priest Dan Edwards as bishop] , Episcopal News Service, October 12, 2007]

Bishops

These are the bishops who have served the region now known as the state of Nevada:

Bishops serving areas including the Nevada Territory
* Joseph Cruickshank Talbot, Missionary, Northwest Diocese (1860 - 1869)
* Ozi William Whitaker, Missionary, Nevada and Arizona, (1869 - 1886)
* Abiel Leonard, Missionary, Utah and Nevada, (1888 - 1903)

Missionary Bishops, Missionary District of Nevada
* Henry D. Robinson (1908 - 1913)
* George Coolidge Hunting (1914 - 1924)
* Thomas Jenkins (1929 - 1942)
* William F. Lewis (1942 - 1959)
* William Godsell Wright (1960 - 1972)

Diocesan Bishops, Episcopal Diocese of Nevada
# Wesley Frensdorff (1972 - 1985)
# Stewart Clark Zabriskie (1986 - 1999)
# Katharine Jefferts Schori (2001 - 2006)
* Jerry A. Lamb, Assisting (2007)
# Dan T. Edwards (2008-)

ee also

* Katharine Jefferts Schori, 26th Presiding Bishop
* Succession list of Episcopal bishops
* Total Ministry

References

External links

* [http://www.nvdiocese.org/ The Diocese of Nevada web site]