Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota


The Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America with jurisdiction over the state of North Dakota plus Clay County, Minnesota. It has 19 congregations in North Dakota and one in Moorhead, Minnesota. It is in Province VI and its cathedral, Gethsemane Episcopal Cathedral, is in Fargo, as are the diocesan offices.
The most recent diocesan bishop, Michael G. Smith, retired on May 1, 2019, and was subsequently named an assisting bishop in the Diocese of Dallas. He is an enrolled member of the Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma and is a graduate of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary.
In August 2019, Keith Whitmore, a retired Bishop of Eau Claire, was named assisting bishop in North Dakota. In February 2021, Thomas C. Ely, a retired Bishop of Vermont, was elected bishop provisional.
In 2024, the diocese reported average Sunday attendance of 454 persons. Plate and pledge income for the 19 filing congregations of the diocese in 2024 was $835,573.
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List of bishops

The bishops of the diocese have been:
  1. William D. Walker, 1883–1896
  2. Samuel Cook Edsall, 1899–1901
  3. Cameron D. Mann, 1902–1913
  4. John Poyntz Tyler, 1914–1931
  5. Frederick B. Bartlett, 1931–1935
  6. Douglass H. Atwill, 1937–1951
  7. Richard R. Emery, 1951–1964
  8. George T. Masuda, 1965–1979
  9. Harold A. Hopkins Jr., 1980–1988
  10. Andrew H. Fairfield, 1989–2003
  11. Michael G. Smith, 2004–2019
  12. Thomas C. Ely, Provisional Bishop, 2021-2024
  13. Brian J. Thom, Provisional Bishop, 2024-
''* Keith Whitmore, Assisting Bishop, 2019-''

Congregations

All Saints, Minot

All Saints, Valley City

Church of the Advent, Devils Lake

Church of the Cross, Selfridge

Church of the Good Shepherd, Lakota

Gethsemane Cathedral, Fargo

Grace Church, Jamestown

St. Gabriel's Camp, Solen

St. George's Episcopal Memorial Church, Bismarck

St. James’, Cannon Ball

St. John the Divine Episcopal Church (Moorhead, Minnesota)

St. John's, Dickinson

St. Luke's, Fort Yates

Sts. Mary and Mark, Oakes

St. Michaels and All Angel's, Cartwright

St. Paul's, Grand Forks

St. Paul's, White Shield

St. Peter's, Walhalla

St. Peter's, Williston

St. Stephen's, Fargo

St. Sylvan's, Dunseith

St. Thomas, Fort Totten