Bishop of Pennsylvania
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| Ecclesiastical province | Province III |
| Statistics | |
| Congregations | 132 |
| Members | 42,337 (2016) |
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| Rite | Episcopal |
| Cathedral | Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | Daniel G. P. Gutierrez |
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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 has 31,800 members in 2016 in 132 congregations. In March 2016, Rev. Daniel G. P. Gutierrez was elected Bishop Diocesan; he was consecrated and assumed office on July 16, 2016.
Quakers may have founded Pennsylvania, but Anglicans were present from the beginning. They established nine congregations, including Christ Church in Philadelphia (1695), Old Trinity Church in Oxford (1698), St. Thomas' Church in Whitemarsh (1698), St. Martin's Church in Marcus Hook (1699), St. David’s Church in Radnor (1700), St. Paul's Church in Chester (1702) and St. John's Church in Concord (1702) in the colony’s first twenty years. After the American Revolution, Anglicans became Episcopalians. Led by the Reverend William White, they organized the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania in 1784. White became its first bishop three years later, and the Diocese grew rapidly during his episcopacy (1787-1836).
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