Diocese of Florida Dioecesis Floridensis Diócesis de la Florida | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Ecclesiastical province | Province IV |
Statistics | |
Congregations | 66 (2021) |
Members | 23,075 (2021) |
Information | |
Denomination | Episcopal Church |
Established | January 17, 1838 |
Cathedral | St John's Cathedral |
Language | English, Spanish |
Current leadership | |
Bishop | Samuel Johnson Howard Charles L. Keyser (Assistant Bishop) Dorsey F. Henderson, Jr. (Assistant Bishop) |
Map | |
Location of the Diocese of Florida | |
Website | |
diocesefl.org |
The Episcopal Diocese of Florida is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA). It originally comprised the whole state of Florida, but is now bounded on the west by the Apalachicola River, on the north by the Georgia state line, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean and on the south by the northern boundaries of Volusia, Marion, and Citrus counties. Its cathedral church is St. John's Cathedral in Jacksonville.
Major cities in the diocese are Jacksonville, Tallahassee and Gainesville. The diocese includes the eastern half of Franklin County, and all of the following counties: Liberty, Gadsden, Leon, Wakulla, Jefferson, Madison, Taylor, Hamilton, Suwannee, Dixie, Lafayette, Levy, Gilchrist, Columbia, Baker, Union, Bradford, Alachua, Nassau, Duval, St. Johns, Clay, Putnam and Flagler.
The diocese is a part of Province IV of the Episcopal Church. The diocese currently comprises 77 churches.[1]