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Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania
The Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America encompassing the counties of Philadelphia, Montgomery, Bucks, Chester and Delaware in the state of Pennsylvania.
The diocese had 44,384 members in 2013〔(episcopal Church membership report )〕 in 142 congregations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.diopa.org/about-us/ )〕 In January 2013, the Right Reverend Clifton Daniel was elected bishop provisional for a two-year term.
== History ==
The diocese is one of the nine original dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, "erected" in 1784, and organized in 1785 the same year the first General Convention of "The Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A." convened.
The first bishop of Pennsylvania, William White, also served as the first and fourth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.
In 1865, the diocese was divided into two parts, and the western part became known as the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh.〔http://www.pitanglican.org/archives/historyofdiocese〕
A historic parish, the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas (now in the Overbrook neighborhood), was founded by Absalom Jones, the first African American priest in the Episcopal Church and commemorated on the church's calendar of saints
The Diocese had a membership of 54,000 in 2003 falling to 44,000 by 2013.
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