Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth (Episcopal Church)
| Diocese of Fort Worth | |
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| Ecclesiastical province | VII |
| Statistics | |
| Parishes | 15 (2014) |
| Members | 4,617 (2016) |
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| Rite | Episcopal |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop |
Scott Mayer (Provisional) Rayford B. High, Jr. (Assistant Bishop) Sam Byron Hulsey (Assistant Bishop) |
| Map | |
 Location of the Diocese of Fort Worth |
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| Website | |
| episcopaldiocesefortworth.org | |
The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth is a diocese of the Episcopal Church (United States), which in turn is part of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The diocese includes a geographic area of 24 counties in the north central part of Texas. As of 2012, it included 20 churches and a number of other congregations in the process of reorganization. The diocese is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. Property claims related to the cathedral are currently in legal dispute.
The diocese came into being in 1983 with the administrative division of the increasingly large Episcopal Diocese of Dallas. Along with its parent Diocese of Dallas, the Diocese of Fort Worth was one of the originators of a strong conservative movement within the Episcopal Church. Fort Worth and Dallas clergy and parishes have both had a long history of leadership in the Anglo-Catholic faction within American Anglicanism.
After the consecration of an openly gay New Hampshire bishop, Gene Robinson, most of the parishes in the diocese affiliated with the Anglican Communion Network, an association of dioceses, parishes, and clergy opposing what its members considered a liberal shift in doctrine and practice that abandoned what they considered to be traditional teaching and discipline. There were also, however, some parishes and individuals who took a moderate or progressive position.
Following the election of Katharine Jefferts Schori as the 26th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church on June 18, 2006, Bishop Jack Iker petitioned Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to place the diocese under the jurisdiction of another primate. This appeal was joined by several other conservative dioceses but Archbishop Williams did not indicate any willingness to grant the request.
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