Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota

Diocese of South Dakota
Location
Ecclesiastical province	Province VI
Statistics
Congregations	78 (2014)
Members	8,974 (2015)
Information
Rite	Episcopal
Cathedral	Calvary Cathedral, Sioux Falls
Current leadership
Bishop	John T. Tarrant
Map
Location of the Diocese of South Dakota
Website
www.diocesesd.org

The Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota is a diocese of the Episcopal Church with jurisdiction over the state of South Dakota.

The diocese was created in 1871 at the Missionary District of Niobrara. It adopted the name Missionary District of South Dakota in 1884.William Hobart Hare was consecrated as Missionary Bishop in 1873, and full Bishop and the district concentrated its efforts on Native Americans. The original boundaries of the district "covered a territory north of the Niobrara River and west of the Missouri, all the way to the Rockies." The Missionary District became the Diocese of South Dakota in 1971, at which time there were 18 parishes, 24 mission congregations, 90 churches & chapels in the Niobrara Deanery, and 4 Episcopal schools.

The Diocese is composed of 76 member congregations in South Dakota, two in Nebraska and one in Minnesota, organized geographically into seven deaneries.

The Diocese is made up of seven geographical Deaneries: Black Hills (10 churches), Pine Ridge (7), Rosebud (15), Central (7), Northwest (17), Northeast (10) and Eastern (12). There is one church located in Minnesota, St. John’s in Browns Valley, part of the Northeast Deanery, and two in Nebraska, Blessed Redeemer, in Howe Creek and Our Most Merciful Savior, in Santee. Its cathedral, Calvary Cathedral, is located in Sioux Falls.

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