Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina

Diocese of East Carolina
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Location
Ecclesiastical province	IV (Southeastern)
Statistics
Parishes	68 (2014)
Current leadership
Bishop	Robert Skirving
Map
Location of the Diocese of East Carolina Location of the Diocese of East Carolina
Website
eastcarolina.anglican.org

The Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina was formed on October 9, 1883, by action of the General Convention. It consists of the congregations of the Episcopal Church in the eastern portion of the state of North Carolina and forms part of Province 4 of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Major cities include Wilmington, Fayetteville, New Bern, and Greenville. Originally its headquarters were located in Wilmington, but in 1983 a new diocesan house was built in Kinston, North Carolina, in order to be located more centrally in the diocese's territory.

List of bishops

Bishops of East Carolina
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
1884	1905	Dr Alfred A. Watson	Alfred Augustin Watson (August 21, 1818, Brooklyn, NY – April 21, 1905, Wilmington, NC); elected December 13, 1883 and consecrated April 17, 1884; died in office.
1905	1914	Robert Strange	(December 6, 1857, Wilmington, NC – August 23, 1914, Wilmington, NC); elected coadjutor before October 7, 1903 and consecrated November 1, 1904; died in office.
1914	1945	Thomas C. Darst	Thomas Campbell Darst (November 10, 1875, Pulaski, VA – September 1, 1948); elected October 7, 1914 and consecrated January 6, 1915; retired May 1, 1945.
1945	1973	Dr Tom Wright	Thomas Henry Wright (October 16, 1904, Wilmington, NC – April 26, 1997, Porter's Neck, NC); elected May 24 and consecrated October 5, 1945; retired 1973.
1973	1983	Hunley A. Elebash	Hunley Agee Elebash (July 23, 1923, Pensacola, FL – October 20, 1993, Wilmington, NC); elected coadjutor before September 27 and consecrated October 2, 1968; retired August, 1983.
1991	2009	C. Charles Vaché, assisting bishop	Claude Charles Vaché (August 4, 1926, North Carolina – November 1, 2009, Virginia Beach, VA); retired Bishop of Southern Virginia.
1983	1997	B. Sidney Sanders	Brice Sidney Sanders (October 15, 1930 – June 5, 1997); elected coadjutor and consecrated June 9, 1979; died in office.
1997	2013	Clifton Daniel	Coadjutor since 1996. Diocesan from 1997 to 2013. Resigned February 28, 2013 to become Bishop Provisional of The Diocese of Pennsylvania.
2009	2012	Santosh Marray, Bishop Assisting	Previously Bishop of the Seychelles. Now Bishop Assistant of the Diocese of Alabama.
2013	2015	Peter James Lee, Bishop Provisional	Previously Bishop of Virginia, retired. Elected Bishop Provisional at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Greenville, NC on March 9, 2013.
2015	incumbent	Robert Skirving	Elected Diocesan Bishop at Christ Church in New Bern, NC on May 17, 2015. Consecrated November 8, 2014. Bishop Diocesan.

External links

• Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina website
• Journal of the Annual Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of East Carolina a comprehensive listing of the proceedings of the diocesan convention from 1883-2009, with the exception of 2006.