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The Episcopal Diocese of Arizona was established by General Convention in 1959, but its history began 100 years before. Here are some important dates: February 15, 1860: Joseph C. Talbot consecrated at Christ Church, Indianapolis to be Missionary Bishop over the newly organized Northwest jurisdiction, covering nearly 900,000 square miles (2,300,000 km 2), including Nebraska, the Dakotas ...
The Episcopal Church (TEC) is governed by a General Convention and consists of 108 dioceses: 96 dioceses in the United States proper, plus ten dioceses in other countries or outlying U.S. territories, the diocese of Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe, and a diocese for Armed Services and Federal Ministries.
St. Mary's church was founded by Episcopalians seeking to establish an Anglo-Catholic community in the Diocese of Arizona. The first Mass was celebrated on the Feast of Christ the King, October 28, 1956, in a Phoenix storefront. Several supply priests served the growing mission parish until the first vicar, the Reverend Rodney Cobb, arrived in ...
In 1914, Trinity Parish was designated to serve as the pro-cathedral for the Missionary Jurisdiction of Arizona and following the designation of the missionary jurisdiction as a diocese in 1959, Trinity became the fourth true cathedral of the Episcopal Church under the full control of the bishop and chapter in 1988, joining Grace Cathedral of ...
On May 2, 1958, the church was officially incorporated in the state of Arizona. Later that year, the Missionary District officially became a Diocese of the Episcopal Church. [2] In September 1959 Henry B. Getz became the rector of the parish. [7] In 1959, the design and construction of the new church building was awarded to T.S. Montgomery. [2]
On November 9, 1981, O'Brien was appointed the third bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix by Pope John Paul II.He received his episcopal consecration on January 6, 1982, from John Paul II himself, with Archbishops Eduardo Somalo and Lucas Neves serving as co-consecrators, in Rome.
He was ordained deacon and priest in 1981 for the Diocese of Western Massachusetts, after which he became a tutor at St Philip's Theological College in Kongwa, Tanzania. In 1984 he returned to the United States and became curate of St Matthew's Church in Worcester, Massachusetts, and in 1986 vicar of the Southeast Region for Navajoland Area ...
On October 20, 2018, she was elected Bishop of Arizona, the sixth bishop after the establishment of the diocese in 1959, and the first woman to serve in that role. She was consecrated on March 9, 2019, by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry. She was seated at Trinity Cathedral on April 7, 2019. At the time of her consecration she was the youngest ...