Episcopal Eastern Diocese

At the founding of The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States, all of New England was considered one diocese under the see of Samuel Seabury. In 1811, the congregations in Massachusetts petitioned the General Convention to form a separate diocese consisting of the states of Massachusetts (including Maine), Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Titled the Eastern Diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, its first bishop was Alexander Viets Griswold.

Vermont elected its own bishop in 1832, and separated from the Eastern Diocese. New Hampshire also separated in 1832. The Eastern Diocese ceased to exist in 1843, when Rhode Island and Maine also elected bishops, following the death of Bishop Griswold.

References

• Albright, Raymond W. (1964). A History of the Protestant Episcopal Church, New York:Macmillan. pp. 165ff
• Julia Chester Emery, Alexander Viets Griswold and the Eastern Diocese (1921)

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