Anglican Diocese of the Southwest

Diocese of Southwest
Location
Ecclesiastical province Anglican Church in North America
Statistics
Parishes 16
Information
Rite Anglican
Current leadership
Bishop Mark Zimmerman
Website
Anglican Diocese of the Southwest Official Website

The Anglican Diocese of the Southwest is a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America. It has 16 parishes, 14 in New Mexico, West Texas and Colorado, in the United States, and 3 in Mexico. The diocese was approved as a diocese-in-formation at the General Convention of 2012 and given full diocese status one year later, in June 2013.

The diocese origin goes back to the Anglican Fellowship of the South, where nine Anglican churches of New Mexico and Texas in the first meeting of their Standing Committee, on 26 May 2011, agreed to apply to become a diocese-in-formation of the Anglican Church in North America, during their Provincial Council. The first synod of the Anglican Fellowship of the South took place at Christ the King Anglican Church, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on 13–14 May 2011, having approved a constitution for the new diocese-in-formation and elected unanimously Win Mott to serve as their Vicar General, which he was until 2014.[1]

The Anglican Church in North America General Convention ratified the admission of the Anglican Diocese of the Southwest as a diocese-in-formation in June 2012. The following year, it was approved as a full diocese.[2]

The College of Bishops of ACNA consented at the election of Mark Zimmerman as the first Bishop of the Diocese of the Southwest at 10 January 2014. He was consecrated at 28 February 2014 at the Church of St. Clement, El Paso, Texas.[3]

References

  1. ↑ ALBUQUERQUE, NM: Anglican Fellowship of the Southwest is New Diocese-in-Formation, Virtue Online, 25 May 2011
  2. ↑ Archbishop Duncan Addresses the 5th Provincial Council of the Anglican Church in North America, ACNA Official Website, 18 June 2013
  3. ↑ Communique from the College of Bishops, January 2014, ACNA Official Website

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