The Episcopal Diocese of Springfield is a
diocese
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
History
In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associat ...
of the
Episcopal Church in the United States of America
The Episcopal Church, based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere, is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces. The presiding bishop o ...
. It is located in the state of
Illinois
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and includes the area east of the
Illinois River
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and south of the Counties of
Woodford,
Livingston,
Ford, and
Iroquois
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. The diocese was founded when the former Episcopal Diocese of Illinois split into three separate Dioceses (Springfield,
Quincy, and
Chicago
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) in 1877.
On December 11, 2021, the Diocese elected the Very Rev.
Brian K. Burgess of
Woodbury, New Jersey
Woodbury is the county seat of Gloucester County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is part of the South Jersey region of the state.[Albion, Illinois
Albion is a city in and the county seat of Edwards County, Illinois, Edwards County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,971 at the 2020 census. The city was named "Albion" after an ancient and poetic reference to the island of Great Bri ...]
: St. John's
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Alton, Illinois
Alton ( ) is a city on the Mississippi River in Madison County, Illinois, United States, about north of St. Louis, Missouri. The population was 25,676 at the 2020 census. It is a part of the River Bend area in the Metro-East region of the ...
: St. Paul's
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Belleville, Illinois
Belleville is a city and the county seat of St. Clair County, Illinois, coterminous with the now defunct Belleville Township. It is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Belleville and the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows. The ...
: St. George's
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Bloomington, Illinois
Bloomington is a city and the county seat of McLean County, Illinois, McLean County, Illinois, United States. It is adjacent to the town of Normal, Illinois, Normal, and is the more populous of the two principal municipalities of the Bloomingto ...
: St. Matthew's
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Cairo, Illinois
Cairo ( ) is the southernmost city in Illinois and the county seat of Alexander County.
The city is located at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Fort Defiance, a Civil War camp, was built here in 1862 by Union General Ulysse ...
: Redeemer
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Carbondale, Illinois
Carbondale is a city in Jackson and Williamson Counties, Illinois, United States, within the Southern Illinois region informally known as "Little Egypt". The city developed from 1853 because of the stimulation of railroad construction into the ...
: St. Andrew's
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Carlinville, Illinois: St. Paul's
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Centralia, Illinois
Centralia is a city in Clinton, Jefferson, Marion, and Washington counties in the U.S. state of Illinois with the largest portion in Marion County. The city is the largest in three of the counties; Clinton, Marion, and Washington, but is not a ...
: St. John's
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Champaign, Illinois
Champaign ( ) is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 88,302 at the 2020 census. It is the tenth-most populous municipality in Illinois and the fourth most populous city in Illinois outside the Chicago metrop ...
:
Emmanuel Memorial::Chapel of St. John the Divine
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Danville, Illinois
Danville is a city in and the county seat of Vermilion County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 33,027. As of 2019, the population was an estimated 30,479.
History
The area that is now Danville was once home to the Miami, ...
: Holy Trinity
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Decatur, Illinois
Decatur ( ) is the largest city and the county seat of Macon County in the U.S. state of Illinois, with a population of 70,522 as of the 2020 Census. The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in ...
: St. John's
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Edwardsville, Illinois
Edwardsville is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Illinois, and is a suburb of St. Louis. As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,808. The city was named in honor of Ninian Edwards, then Governor of the Illinois Territory.
...
: St. Andrew's
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Effingham, Illinois
Effingham is a city in and the county seat of Effingham County, Illinois, United States. It is in South Central Illinois. Its population was 12,252 at the 2020 census. The city is part of the Effingham, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.
The c ...
: St. Laurence
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Glen Carbon, Illinois: St. Thomas'
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Granite City, Illinois
Granite City is a city in Madison County, Illinois, United States, within the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area. The population was 27,549 at the 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Metro East and Southern Illinois regio ...
: St. Bartholomew's
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Harrisburg, Illinois: St. Stephen's
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Havana, Illinois: St. Barnabas'
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Jacksonville, Illinois
Jacksonville is a city in Morgan County, Illinois, Morgan County, Illinois, United States. The population was 19,446 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Morgan County. It is home to Illinois College, Illinois School for the Deaf, and the ...
: Trinity
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Lincoln, Illinois
Lincoln is a city in Logan County, Illinois, United States. First settled in the 1830s, it is the only town in the United States that was named for Abraham Lincoln before he became president; he practiced law there from 1847 to 1859. Lincoln is ...
: Trinity
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Marion, Illinois
Marion is a city in Williamson and Johnson Counties, Illinois, United States, and is the county seat of Williamson County. The population was 16,855 at the 2020 census. It is part of a dispersed urban area that developed out of the early 20th ...
: St. James'
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Mattoon, Illinois
Mattoon ( ) is a city in Coles County, Illinois, United States. The population was 16,870 as of the 2020 census. The city is home to Lake Land College and has close ties with its neighbor, Charleston. Both are principal cities of the Charleston� ...
: Trinity
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Morton, Illinois: All Saints'
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Mt. Carmel, Illinois: St. John the Baptist
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Mt. Vernon, Illinois: Trinity
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Normal, Illinois
Normal is a town in McLean County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town's population was 52,736. Normal is the smaller of two principal municipalities of the Bloomington–Normal metropolitan area, and Illinois' seventh mos ...
: Christ the King
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O'Fallon, Illinois: St. Michael's
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Pekin, Illinois: St. Paul's
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Rantoul, Illinois
Rantoul is a village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 12,371 at the 2020 census.
History
The community was named after Robert Rantoul, Jr., a U.S. representative from Massachusetts, and a director of the Illino ...
: St. Christopher's
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Robinson, Illinois
Robinson is a city in and the county seat of Crawford County, Illinois, United States. The population was 7,713 at the 2010 census, up from 6,822 in 2000.
Geography
Robinson is in the center of Crawford County at . Illinois Route 33 passes thro ...
: St. Mary's
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Salem, Illinois: St. Thomas'
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Springfield, Illinois
Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat and largest city of Sangamon County. The city's population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh most-populous city, the second largest ...
:
::Cathedral Church of St. Paul
::Christ Church
St. Luke's*
West Frankfort, Illinois: St. Mark's
Bishops
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George Franklin Seymour, 1878-1906
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Edward William Osborne, diocesan 1906-1917
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Granville Hudson Sherwood, 1917-1923
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John Chanler White, 1924-1947
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Richard T. Loring, 1947-1948
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Charles A. Clough, 1948-1961
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Albert Arthur Chambers, 1962-1972
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Albert W. Hillestad, 1972-1981
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Donald M. Hultstrand
Donald Maynard Hultstrand (April 16, 1927 - December 21, 2018) was the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield.
Early and family life
Born on April 16, 1927, in Parkers Prairie, Minnesota, to Aaron Hultstrand and his wife, the form ...
, 1982-1991
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Peter H. Beckwith, 1992-2010
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Daniel Hayden Martins, 2011– June 30, 2021
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Brian K. Burgess, 2022-present
References
External links
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Journal of the Annual Convention, Diocese of Springfield'
Dioceses of the Episcopal Church (United States)
Diocese of Springfield
Religious organizations established in 1877
Anglican dioceses established in the 19th century
1877 establishments in Illinois
Province 5 of the Episcopal Church (United States)
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