Anglican Diocese of the Living Word | |
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Location | |
Ecclesiastical province | Anglican Church in North America |
Statistics | |
Parishes | 42 (2023)[1] |
Members | 2,537 (2023)[1] |
Information | |
Rite | Anglican |
Cathedral | Bishop Seabury Anglican Church, Gales Ferry, Connecticut (pro-cathedral) |
Current leadership | |
Diocesan bishop | Julian Dobbs |
Assistant bishop | William H. Love |
Website | |
adlw.org |
The Anglican Diocese of the Living Word, formerly the Missionary Diocese of CANA East, is a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). It was one of the four missionary dioceses of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America, a dual church body of the ACNA and the Church of Nigeria. It is officially a full member diocese of ACNA since June 2013. It comprises 42 congregations in 19 American states, with congregations as far as California and Florida but with most concentrated in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic regions.[2] The diocese is divided into nine archdeaconries: Central New York, the Chesapeake, Long Island, the Mid-Atlantic, the Northeast, northeastern New York, the Ohio Valley, the South and the Midwest. The diocese also sponsors a mission in Haiti that includes nine additional congregations.[3] The diocesan office is located at McLean, Virginia. The diocese also includes two affiliated religious communities: the Franciscan Brothers of Bucksport and the Community of St. Mary (East) in New York.[4]