Episcopal Diocese of San Diego

Diocese of San Diego
Location
Ecclesiastical province	Province VIII
Statistics
Congregations	46 (2014)
Members	14,622 (2014)
Information
Rite	Episcopal
Cathedral	St. Paul's Cathedral
Current leadership
Bishop	James R. Mathes
Map
Location of the Diocese of San Diego
Website
edsd.org Diocese website

The Episcopal Diocese of San Diego is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America with jurisdiction over San Diego County, Imperial County and part of Riverside County in California plus all of Yuma County in Arizona. It is in Province 8 and encompasses some 50 congregations. It was created in 1973 by splitting off from the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. Its cathedral, St. Paul's Cathedral, is in San Diego. The diocesan offices are located in Ocean Beach at 2083 Sunset Cliffs Blvd., San Diego, CA 92107.

The bishops of San Diego have been:

The Episcopal Diocese of San Diego was founded in 1974, over 100 years after the first Episcopal service took place in this region. The area which currently makes up the Diocese of San Diego stretches from Sun City to the Mexican border, from the Pacific Ocean to Yuma, Arizona. Until 1975, this was part of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles.

Shipwrecked off the coast of Point Loma, Episcopal bishop William Ingraham Kip, a patrician New Englander, and his wife were graciously entertained by the Bandini family, whose house still stands in Old Town San Diego. On Sunday, January 22, 1854, the bishop celebrated his first Eucharist in California at the courthouse in Old Town. The area developed and Episcopal churches grew up out of new communities until a separate diocese was formed from the Diocese of Los Angeles. Robert Wolterstorff was consecrated as the first bishop of the Diocese of San Diego in 1974. Wolterstorff served as rector of St. James by-the-Sea in La Jolla before becoming bishop. The newly formed diocese then had 37 congregations and nearly 20,000 members.

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