Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia

Diocese of Southern Virginia
Location
Ecclesiastical province	Province III
Statistics
Congregations	106 (2014)
Members	27,194 (2014)
Information
Rite	Episcopal
Current leadership
Bishop	Herman Hollerith IV
Map
Location of the Diocese of Southern Virginia
Website
diosova.org

Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America located in the southeast area of Virginia. It is in Province III (for the Middle Atlantic region). The diocese includes the Hampton Roads area; Richmond south of the James River; most of the region known as Southside Virginia; and Northampton County, the southernmost of the two counties on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

The Diocese of Southern Virginia was created as a split from the Diocese of Virginia in 1892. The Diocese of Southwestern Virginia split off from the Diocese of Southern Virginia in 1919.

The diocese elected Herman Hollerith IV as bishop on September 27, 2008, who was consecrated as the tenth Bishop of the Diocese of Southern Virginia on February 10, 2009. The diocese does not contain a cathedral church, though its offices are in Norfolk.

Camp Chanco, the diocesan retreat center, is located in Surry.

When English colonists established Jamestown, Virginia on May 14, 1607, those settlers built one of the first churches in the New World, in what would eventually become the Diocese of Southern Virginia. The Jamestown church also became the meeting place of the first New World legislative assembly on July 30, 1619, but was ultimately burned down (with most of the city) in Bacon's Rebellion. On Sunday June 24, 2007, Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of ECUSA led the 400th anniversary celebration of the first Anglican service of Holy Communion in the new World at Jamestown.

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