Episcopal Diocese of West Texas


The Episcopal Diocese of West Texas is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America whose territory comprises the southernmost part of the state of Texas.
The see city is San Antonio, and the diocese includes the cities of Corpus Christi, and Brownsville.
Organized by a division of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas in 1874, it had 87 churches, 26,000 active baptized members, and an Average Sunday Attendance of 10,592. The diocese and its parishes sponsor twenty-eight parochial schools and preschools, including TMI — The Episcopal School of Texas, a boarding college preparatory school on the outskirts of San Antonio. The diocese was also instrumental in the founding of St. Philip's College, which became a public community college in 1942.
The largest parishes in the diocese are , , and .
The Diocese of West Texas is part of Province VII.

Bishops

There have been ten bishops of West Texas:
  1. Robert W. B. Elliott
  2. James Steptoe Johnston
  3. William Theodotus Capers
  4. Everett Holland Jones
  5. Harold Cornelius Gosnell
  6. Scott Field Bailey
* Stanley F. Hauser, suffragan 1979-1987
  1. John Herbert MacNaughton
* Earl N. McArthur, suffragan
  1. James E. Folts
*Robert B. Hibbs, suffragan
  1. Gary Richard Lillibridge
  2. David M. Reed
The diocese does not have a church designated as its cathedral; the diocesan offices are in the Bishop Jones Center in San Antonio.