When the Saxon Diocese of Sherborne was founded in 705 by King Ine of Wessex, he set Aldhelm as first Bishop of the see of Western Wessex, with his seat at Sherborne.

* Leelanau County is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaylord and the Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan.

The university was founded in 1878 as the Western University of London, Ontario, a denominational school of the Church of England, by Bishop Isaac Hellmuth and the Anglican Diocese of Huron.

The university was founded on 7 March 1878 by Bishop Isaac Hellmuth ( 1817 – 1901 ) of the Anglican Diocese of Huron as " The Western University of London Ontario.

The Diocese of the Western United States consists of over six churches and a mission.

The Church has 40 dioceses, including the Diocese of the Eastern and Western United States and Canada.

The Diocese also runs St. Peter's Seminary, which is now affiliated with the University of Western Ontario.

* Archbishop Hovnan Derderian-Primate of the Western Diocese of the Armenian Church of North America

* Bishop Emery Lindsay – Senior Bishop and Presiding Bishop of the Western Diocese

The provincial of the Western Province closed the University in 1928, and the charter reverted to the Diocese of Dallas.

He successfully petitioned the Holy See to separate Western Pennsylvania into a new diocese, and the Diocese of Pittsburgh was established in 1836 ; Kenrick was initially considered for the new diocese as well as for Coadjutor Bishop of New York, but withdrew his candidacy.

The hierarchy was restored in 1850 by Pope Pius IX, and the Western District was created the Diocese of Clifton, so-called because the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851 made it illegal for Catholic dioceses to use the same title as current or former Anglican dioceses, despite the fact that the Diocese of Clifton had its Cathedral Church within the City of Bristol.

On 24 April 2006, and without first consulting his diocese or clergy, Bishop Basil of Sergievo wrote to the Patriarch of Moscow requesting that he and the Diocese of Sourozh as a whole ( and not simply those elements who wished to go with him ) be released from the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate to be received into the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch, to exist alongside Constantinople's Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe, based in Rue Daru in Paris.

Dr. Thomas Soo is Bishop of the Diocese of Western Kowloon, and also the chairman of Hong Kong Christian Council and the Board of the Hong Kong Bible Society.

Also located near that edge of the Quadrangle is the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts ' Christ Church Cathedral.

The St. John's Catholic Newman Center on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the St. Francis of Assisi Newman Center on the campus of Western Illinois University, John Paul II Catholic Newman Center on the campus of Illinois State University as well as the St. Joseph Newman Center on the campus of Bradley University are part of the Peoria Diocese.

* William Gordon Legge ( 1913 – 1999 ), Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Western Newfoundland

Soo Yee Po, Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Western Kowloon.

In 1875 the Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan was split off and in 1994 the Episcopal Diocese of Eastern Michigan was created from the northern two-thirds of its then remaining territory.

* Sadock Makaya, Bishop of Diocese of Western Tanganyika, Tanzania

* The Diocese of Western Mexico

Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.

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# The United Episcopal Church of North America and each of the following: the Anglican Catholic Church, the Anglican Province of Christ the King, and the Diocese of the Great Lakes.

In 1864, William Henry Elder, the Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Natchez, refused to obey a federal order to compel his parishioners to pray for the President of the United States.

The city is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gaylord ; it is by far the smallest settlement serving as the location of an active Roman Catholic cathedral in the United States.

His Holiness established the first Diocese in the lands of immigration for the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate in 1991, the Diocese of Birmingham ; and appointed the general bishop for the United Kingdom at the time, H. G.

The community includes two archdioceses in Iraq, four in Syria, one in Egypt and Sudan, a Patriarchal Vicariate in the Holy Land, a Patriarchal Vicariate in Turkey and the Diocese of Our Lady of Deliverance in the United States and Canada.

Our Lady of Deliverance Syriac Catholic Diocese in the United States and Canada has nine parishes ; seven in the United States and two in Canada.

* Diocese of the Eastern United States – Overseen by Bishop Mar Poulous Benyamin.

The Diocese of the Eastern United States consists of nine churches.

Vicky Gene Robinson ( born May 29, 1947 in Fayette County, Kentucky ) is the ninth bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America .< ref name =" adams ">

Upon returning to the United States, he did pastoral work in the Diocese of Nashville.

Returning to the United States, he then did pastoral work in the Diocese of Brooklyn and served as secretary to Bishop McDonnell until 1897.

At the time, the Diocese of Baltimore encompassed the whole of the United States.

In 1920, for the third time, he journeyed again in the United States, this time on a mission to organize the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of North America.

In 1848, present-day California was ceded to the United States, and the U. S. portion of the diocese was renamed the Diocese of Monterey.

Because Maryland was one of the few regions of the colonial United States that was predominantly Catholic, the apostolic prefecture was elevated to become the Diocese of Baltimore — the first diocese in the United States — on November 6, 1789.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore is one of only three United States dioceses that has two churches serving as cathedrals in the same city — the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace and Co-Cathedral of Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus in the Diocese of Honolulu share the distinction.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of San José ; in California () is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States.

One of these non-ratifying dioceses, the Diocese of the Southeastern States, dissolved within a short time leaving only the Diocese of Christ the King under its Bishop Ordinary, the Right Reverend Robert Morse of California.

Saint Thomas Church, located at the corner of 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York, New York in the United States, is an Episcopal parish church of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.

In the United States, the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska has not granted permission.