About Us
Welcome to the Episcopal Church
Official Name: Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Mississippi
Date of Establishment: May 1826
Accepted by General Convention: November 1826 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ecclesiastical Authority: The Rt. Rev. Duncan M. Gray III, 9th Bishop of Mississippi, elected coadjutor on 26 Feb. 2000, consecrated on 17 June 2000, and assumed ordinary jurisdiction on 1 March 2003. Bishop Gray is the 956th bishop in the American Succession.
Geographical Area: 48,434 sq. miles co-extensive with the boundaries of the civil State of Mississippi
Population: 2,858,029
No. of Baptized Members: approx. 20,000
No. of Congregations:
Parishes: 51
Missions: 29
Mission Stations: 8
Total: 88
No. of Chaplaincies: 6
No. of Affiliated Schools: 8
Seminaries:
School of Theology, University of the South: The Province IV Seminary located in Sewanee, TN (Diocese of Tennessee)
Other Seminaries of the Episcopal Church:
- Berkeley Divinity School of Yale: New Haven, CT
- Bexley Hall: Rochester, NY
- Church Divinity School of the Pacific: Berkely, CA
- Episcopal Divinity School: Cambridge, MA
- Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest: Austin, TX
- General Theological Seminary: New York, NY
- Nashotah House: Nashotah, WI
- Seabury Western Theological Seminary: Evanston, IL
- Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry: Ambridge, PA
- Virginia Theological Seminary: Alexandria, VA
Clergy:
- Bishops: 4 (1 Active Canonical, 3 Retired Canonical)
- Presbyters: 139 (81 Active Canonical, 40 Retired Canonical, 18 Non Canonical)
- Deacons: 27 (25 Active Canonical, 3 Retired Canonical, 2 Non Parochial)
Cathedral:
St. Andrew's Episcopal Cathedral
305 E. Capitol Street
Jackson, Mississippi 39201
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Diocesan Headquarters:
The Allin House
118 N. Congress Street
Jackson, Mississippi 39201
Mission and Outreach:
- Anti-Racism
- AIDS/HIV Ministry
- Ministry with Hispanic Persons
- Medical Mission in Honduras
- Ministry with Youth
