Province 8 (VIII), also called the Province of the Pacific, is one of nine

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s making up the

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. It is composed of sixteen

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s in the nine states of

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, and

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. Also part of the province are the Episcopal Diocese of

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, which has been a diocese of the Church since 1960; and the Navajoland Area Mission which was established in 1979 to serve the specific spiritual and cultural needs of the

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. The province encompasses more than a third of the land mass of the

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, and nearly twenty percent of the country's population. Because of its sheer size, the province claims to contain the most demographically diverse population in the world. The Rt. Rev. Gretchen Rehberg of the Diocese of Spokane serves as President and Rev. Tom Sramek Jr. of the Diocese of Oregon serves as Vice President.

Dioceses of Province VIII

* Diocese of Alaska * Diocese of Arizona * Diocese of California * Diocese of Eastern Oregon * Diocese of El Camino Real * Diocese of Hawaii * Diocese of Idaho * Diocese of Los Angeles * Diocese of Nevada * Diocese of Northern California * Diocese of Olympia * Diocese of Oregon * Diocese of San Diego * Diocese of San Joaquin * Diocese of Spokane * Diocese of Taiwan * Diocese of Utah

Other jurisdictions of Province VIII

* Navajoland Area Mission *

Episcopal Church in Micronesia The Episcopal Church in Micronesia was a mission within Province VIII of the Episcopal Church. At its dissolution, it had four congregations, three on Guam and one on Saipan, in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, as well as St. Jo ...

References and external links

ECUSA Province DirectoryProvince VIII website
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