Parishes 34 Bishop Stephen Dwain Wood | Rite Anglican | |
Ecclesiastical province Anglican Church in North America | ||
The Diocese of the Carolinas is a diocese of the Anglican Church in North America, comprising 34 parishes in the American states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. Their first bishop is the Right Rev. Stephen D. Wood. He is also the rector of St. Andrew's Church, in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. David C. Bryan was elected Suffragan Bishop in June 2016, with Thaddeus R. Barnum as Assisting Bishop.
The diocese was formed when Anglican clergy and lay people, many of whom had left the Episcopal Church, began to gather to discuss starting a new diocese in the Anglican Church in North America. Chief among the architects of new diocese were the Rev. Canon Filmore Strunk, rector of All Saints' Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the Rev. Steve Wood, rector of St. Andrew's Church in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.
The new diocese was approved unanimously at the Provincial Assembly of the ACNA, on 6 June 2012, with Steve Wood as their first bishop elected. He was consecrated on 25 August 2012, at St. Andrew's Church in Mount Pleasant, by Archbishop Robert Duncan, Archbishop-elect of Uganda, Stanley Ntagali, Bishop Roger Ames, Bishop John Guernsey and Bishop Alphonsa Gadsden, all three from the ACNA.