Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin

Diocese of San Joaquin
Location
Ecclesiastical province	Anglican Church in North America
Statistics
Parishes	41
Information
Rite	Anglican
Cathedral	St. James Cathedral, Fresno
Current leadership
Bishop	Eric Menees
Website
dioceseofsanjoaquin.net

This article is about the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin in the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). For the diocese of the Episcopal Church, see Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin.

The Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin (ADSJ) is a diocese in the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA). It came into being after a majority of its congregants separated from the Episcopal Church in 2007. Those who did not separate remained and continue to constitute the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin (EDSJ). Following the separation, those departing the Episcopal Church were initially named as a diocese of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone. On June 22-25 2009, in Bedford, Texas, the Diocese of San Joaquin joined several others churches and dioceses in creating a new Anglican province that would be called the Anglican Church in North America. Although the ACNA is recognized by some sister provinces, it is not part of the worldwide Anglican communion by virtue of not being recognized by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The diocese is headquartered in Fresno, California. The coterminous Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin, which did not separate from the Episcopal Church, is headquartered in Modesto, California, and was, until the events surrounding the creation of the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin, one of the most conservative within the Episcopal Church and one of three that did not ordain women (the others being the dioceses of Quincy and Fort Worth). The pre-separation Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin had a membership of approximately 8,500.

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