Contact the Diocesan Staff at the Episcopal Diocese of Florida. The Right Reverend J. Russell Kendrick is Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast Bishop Russell was elected to be the fourth bishop of the Central Gulf Coast in February of 2015, and was ordained as bishop on July 25, 2015. Learn about the Episcopal Churches in North Florida. [4] 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). Below are but a few of the lay positions open within the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida, a constituent member of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the Episcopal Church in the United States. The Diocese is composed of 76 member congregations in South Dakota, two in Nebraska and one in Minnesota, organized geographically into seven deaneries. The Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast was created in 1970 from portions of the adjoining dioceses of Alabama and Florida. Episcopal Diocese of Central Florida opposes Presiding Bishop's attempts in U.S. courts to reduce dioceses to "subordinate units" " We are deeply concerned that the Presiding Bishop is seeking to reinterpret the Constitution and Canons of this Church and overturn 220 years of settled church custom and law by appealing to an outside secular court." Current Openings and Job Resources. ... the Diocese is bound to work within the Constitution and Canons of The Episcopal Church which state that a Parish holds in trust all real and personal property for the benefit of the Diocese and The Episcopal Church. Its territory covers the southern third of Alabama and the Florida Panhandle region, west of the Appalachicola River. 76 churches; 162 clergy and ministers; over 33,000 parishioners We exist to make the transforming love of Jesus Christ come alive in our time and known to all people, everyone! The acclaimed Walt Disney Concert Hall organ roared, purred, wept and rejoiced on June 12 under the hands of six highly accomplished organists who also serve congregations of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. A brass ensemble and a 200-voice choir joined them for several numbers — and at one poi This was reiterated recently by evangelical bishop John W. Howe of Central Florida.