Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
| Diocese of Massachusetts | |
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| Location | |
| Ecclesiastical province | Province I |
| Deaneries | 12 |
| Statistics | |
| Congregations | 163 (2014) |
| Members | 58,724 (2015) |
| Information | |
| Rite | Episcopal |
| Cathedral | Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Boston |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | Alan M. Gates |
| Suffragans | Gayle Elizabeth Harris |
| Map | |
 Location of the Diocese of Massachusetts |
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| Website | |
| diomass.org | |
The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts is one of the nine original dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
Massachusetts was founded by Puritans who did not accept such aspects of the Church of England as bishops and the Book of Common Prayer. The first Anglican parish in the Massachusetts Bay Colony was King's Chapel in Boston, founded in 1688, 58 years after the city. After the American Revolution, King's Chapel became the first Unitarian congregation in North America. The oldest remaining parishes in the diocese are Christ Church in Quincy, founded in 1704, St. Paul's in Newburyport, founded as Queen Anne's Chapel in 1711, St. Michael's Church in Marblehead, founded in 1714, Christ Church in Boston (Old North Church), founded in 1723, and St. Andrew's Church in South Scituate (now Hanover), founded in 1727.
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