Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey

Diocese of New Jersey
Location
Ecclesiastical province	Province II
Statistics
Congregations	146
Members	41,662 (2015)
Information
Rite	Episcopal
Cathedral	Trinity Cathedral
Current leadership
Bishop	The Rt. Rev. William H. Stokes
Map
Location of the Diocese of New Jersey
Website
newjersey.anglican.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 diocese 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.

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.

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