Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma
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The Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma has been a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America since 1919. The diocese consists of all ECUSA congregations in the state of Oklahoma.
The current and 7th bishop is the Right Reverend Robert M. Moody, consecrated in 1989.
St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, Oklahoma City is the cathedral of the diocese.
Diocesan Constitution as revised 14 November, 2003
Diocesan Canons as revised 19 November, 2005.
[edit] Institutions of the Diocese
- Ardmore Village, Ardmore
- St. Simeon's Episcopal Home, Tulsa
- St. Crispin's Conference Center, Wewoka
[edit] Supported Schools
- Casady School, Oklahoma City
- Holland Hall School, Tulsa
- Oak Hall Episcopal School, Ardmore
- St. Dunstan's Preschool, Tulsa
- St. John's Episcopal Preschool, Tulsa
- St. John's Episcopal School, Oklahoma City
- St. Mary's Episcopal School, Edmond
- Trinity Day School, Tulsa
[edit] Previous Bishops
[edit] Bishop Gerald McAllister, 1977-1989
Following the retirement of Bishop Powell, Bishop Gerald McAllister became Bishop in 1977 and remained so until 1989 when the present Bishop Robert M. Moody was elected. During the time of Bishop McAllister, outreach became a priority. The Venture in Mission program raised 2.3 million dollars and committed half of that to overseas missions. The concept of total ministry became a Diocesan priority. Cluster ministries were instituted, hospital chaplains and college chaplains were added, two Episcopal schools flourished, and two residential facilities were opened for the elderly. At the end of Bishop McAllister’s time as our Bishop, the Diocese was more financially sound and had grown to 80 congregations, missions, parishes, and two conference centers.
[edit] Bishop Chilton Powell, 1953-1977
Reverend Chilton Powell was consecrated Bishop Coadjutor in 1951 and became the Bishop of Oklahoma after Bishop Casady’s retirement in 1953. At Bishop Powell’s election, there were 35 clergy and a Diocesan budget of $100,000.00. Bishop Powell is best remembered as a missionary Bishop. Under his care, the Diocese opened many new missions all over Oklahoma, including the panhandle as well as St. Crispin’s, a new conference center in Seminole. While Bishop of Oklahoma, Bishop Powell also chaired the Prayer Book Commission that produced the 1979 Prayer Book. At the end of his episcopate, there were 77 congregations, missions and parishes.
[edit] Bishop Frederick W. Putnam, Suffragan 1963-1979
Frederick Warren Putnam Jr. was born in Red Wing, Minnesota in 1917. He received his education in the public schools in Minneapolis and graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1939. That fall he entered Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, graduating with a bachelor of Theology in 1942. In March of that year he had been ordained Deacon and by October be became a priest. He married Helen Kathryn Prouse and they had three children. In November of 1962 he was elected to be Oklahoma's first Suffragan Bishop.
[edit] Bishop Thomas Casady, 1927-1953
Thomas Casady was born in Des Moines, Iowa, June 6, 1881, the son of Simon Casady and Sarah Covarral. He was educated in the public schools of Des Moines and graduated from the University of Iowa in 1902.
His father, a banker, had hoped he would follow him in the banking business, but Thomas developed a vocation for Holy Orders. He was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, a Freemason, and a Knight Templer.
In 1903 he entered General Theological Seminary. After he became Bishop he received an honorary Doctor of Sacred Theology from General and an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Sewanee, The University of the South, Tennessee.
He was ordained deacon in June of 1906, and priest in February of 1907. On June 27, 1906 he married Frances LeBaron Kasson, by whom he had six children.
On October 2, 1927 at All Saints', Omaha, Nebraska he was consecrated Bishop by the Presiding Bishop, the Rt. Rev. John Gardner Murray of Maryland, assisted by the Rt. Rev. Theodore N. Morrison, Bishop of Iowa; the Rt. Rev. George A. Beecher, Bishop of Nebraska and a number of other bishops.
Bishop Casady was the third Missionary Bishop of Oklahoma and the first Diocesan Bishop.
[edit] Bishop Eugene Cecil Seaman, 1926-1927
Bishop Seaman had only recently been consecrated bishop of North Texas in 1925 when he was selected to serve as 'acting bishop' of Oklahoma in 1926 due to the failing health of Bp. Thurston. He was a graduate of the Sewanee, The University of the South, Tennessee. During his short service to the diocese, Bp. Seaman conformed 270 persons, consecrated St. Paul's Cathedral, and smoothed the way for the Bp. Casady to lead the state from a Missionary District to becoming a Diocese.
[edit] Bishop Theodore Payne Thurston, (1911-1919) 1919-1926
An Illinois native, who served the church in Minnesota, Bishop Thurston was consecrated bishop of Eastern Oklahoma at Minneapolis in 1911. General Convention had the previous year divided the state into two diocese. Bishop Thurston was socially liberal and a low churchman like Bishop Brooke. He chose Muskogee as his see city and Grace Church as his pro-cathedral.
The Convocation of the church in May, 1919, after the death of Bishop Brooke, under the motion submitted by two St. Paul's leaders, J. Bruce McClelland and Henry G. Snyder, voted to recombine the two districts, and Bishop Thurston moved to Oklahoma City and St. Paul's. The move was approved by the national church in October.
[edit] Bishop Francis Key Brooke, 1893-1911 (1911-1919)
Elected Bishop of the Missionary District of Oklahoma and Indian Territory on January 6, 1893, Bishop Brooke arrived in Guthrie on January 19 and established Trinity Church as his cathedral church until 1908 when he moved the diocesan headquarters to Oklahoma City.
[edit] External links
- Official Website of the Diocese of Oklahoma
- Bishop Search Process
- Diocese of Oklahoma Cursillo Movement
- Diocese of Oklahoma ECW
- Vocare in Oklahoma
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