Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey

Diocese of New Jersey Diœcesis Novæ Cæsariensis
Location
Country	United States
Ecclesiastical province	Province II
Statistics
Congregations	136 (2022)
Members	31,724 (2022)
Information
Denomination	Episcopal Church
Established	July 6, 1785
Cathedral	Trinity Cathedral
Language	English, Spanish
Current leadership
Bishop	Sally French
Map
Location of the Diocese of New Jersey
Website
dioceseofnj.org

The Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey forms part of Province II of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. It is made up of the southern and central New Jersey counties of Union, Middlesex, Somerset, Hunterdon, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean, Burlington, Camden, Atlantic, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland, and Cape May. It is the second oldest of the nine original Dioceses of the Episcopal Church. Services began in 1685 at St. Peter's, Perth Amboy, the oldest parish in the diocese. The diocese itself was founded in 1785.^[1]

The diocese originally included all of the state of New Jersey, but was divided in 1874, when the northern third of the state split off to form the Diocese of Northern New Jersey, which was later renamed to become the Diocese of Newark. The Diocese of New Jersey has the sixth-largest number of parishes in the Episcopal Church, and the eighth-largest number of baptized communicants. It has a reputation for broad ethnic and socio-economic diversity.

The Diocese of New Jersey currently has a total of 141 congregations. The diocese is under the jurisdiction of Sally French, Bishop of New Jersey, whose seat is at Trinity Cathedral, Trenton. The largest parish in the diocese is Trinity Church, Princeton.

The diocese had 53,000 members in 2003 and 43,000 in 2013.^[2] It reported 41,662 members in 2015.