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The Episcopal Diocese of Texas is one of the dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.The diocese consists of all Episcopal congregations in the southeastern quartile of Texas, including the cities of Austin, Beaumont, Galveston, Houston (the see city), Waco and, as of July 2022, Fort Worth and other cities within the former diocese in North Texas.
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.
In 2014 she was appointed to serve as canon to the ordinary in the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, a position she held until her election as Suffragan Bishop of Texas on February 22, 2019. She was consecrated bishop in Westover Hills Church of Christ in Austin on June 1, 2019, by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry .
He was elected bishop co-adjutor on May 24, 2008, and was seated as Bishop of Texas on June 7, 2009. Prior to his election as Bishop of Texas, Doyle served as Canon to the Ordinary under his predecessor, Don A. Wimberly. In February 2020, he announced that the Episcopal Diocese of Texas would start a $13 million racial reconciliation initiative.
As of 2017, it had 87 churches, 26,000 active baptized members, and an Average Sunday Attendance of 10,592.The diocese and its parishes sponsor twenty-eight parochial schools and preschools, including TMI Episcopal (founded as "West Texas Military Academy"), a boarding college-preparatory school on the outskirts of San Antonio.
The congregation was established in 1839, when Texas was still an independent republic. [1] It is the oldest extant congregation in Houston and one of the oldest non-Roman Catholic churches in Texas. Many Episcopal churches in Houston and the surrounding area were founded as missions of Christ Church, such as Trinity Church, Houston, founded in ...
The Episcopal Church in North Texas was a diocese of the Episcopal Church from 1982 to its merger with the Diocese of Texas in 2022. The diocese included a geographic area of 24 counties in the north central part of Texas. [2] As of 2021, it includes 13 churches, including a number of other congregations in the process of reorganization. [1]
Jeff Wright Fisher (born 1964) is an American bishop of the Episcopal Church.He is the current suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.. Fisher was born in Houston, Texas, in 1964 and was baptized at the Church of St John the Divine in Houston.