Episcopal Diocese of Taiwan

Diocese of Taiwan

臺灣聖公會
Coat of arms of the Diocese of Taiwan
Coat of arms
Location
CountryTaiwan
Ecclesiastical provinceProvince VIII
(formerly Nippon Sei Ko Kai)
Statistics
Congregations15 (2022)
Members1,148 (2022)
Information
DenominationEpiscopal Church
CathedralSt. John's Cathedral, Taipei
Current leadership
BishopLennon Yuan-Jung Chang
Website
episcopalchurch.org.tw

The Episcopal Diocese of Taiwan (traditional Chinese: 臺灣聖公會; simplified Chinese: 台湾圣公会; lit. 'Episcopal Church of Taiwan') is the Anglican diocese in Taiwan and a member diocese of the Episcopal Church of the United States. It was established in 1954, five years after Chinese Episcopalians fled from mainland China to Taiwan following the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949.

Early leadership included American military chaplains connected to The Church of the Good Shepherd or St. John's,[1] but in 1965 the Diocese elected its first Chinese bishop. In late 2019 Lennon Yuan-Jung Chang was elected the sixth Bishop of Taiwan, and was consecrated on February 22, 2020.[2]

It is a diocese of Province 8 of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

  1. ^ "Taiwan," https://episcopalchurch.org/diocese/taiwan accessed February 10, 2020
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference chang-el was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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