Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee

Location of the Diocese of Milwaukee

Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America located in the southern area of Wisconsin. It is in Province V (for the Midwest region). The Rt. Reverend Steven Miller is the bishop.

Cathedral

The see city is Milwaukee. Cathedral Church of All Saints, Milwaukee is the mother church.

History

The diocese was formed after Jackson Kemper was named the Episcopal Church's first missionary bishop and oversaw the church's mission to the Northwest Territories from 1835 to 1859. He became provisional bishop of Wisconsin from 1847 to 1854 and first bishop of the Diocese of Wisconsin from 1854 to 1870.

Bishops

• 1. Jackson Kemper
• 2. William Edmond Armitage
• 3. Edward Randolph Welles
• 4. Cyrus Frederick Knight
• 5. Isaac Lea Nicholson
• 6. William Walter Webb
• 7. Benjamin Franklin Price Ivins
• 8. Donald Hathaway Valentine Hallock
• 9. Charles Thomas Gaskell
• 10. Roger John White
• 11. Steven Andrew Miller

Education

Nashotah House, in Nashotah, which is a seminary for the Episcopal Church, and St. John's Northwestern Military Academy in Delafield, Wisconsin, a private Episcopal military academy, are also located in the Diocese of Milwaukee.

Cadle Mission and the Racine College were also located in the diocese.

Parishes in the diocese

• St. James Episcopal Church, Milwaukee is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
• St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Milwaukee is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

External links

• The Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee