Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador

The Anglican Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador is one of seven dioceses of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada in the Anglican Church of Canada. As of 2012 the diocese had 50,000 members in 81 congregations organised in 35 parishes. The most widely spread parish has thirteen congregations.^[2]

Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador
Statistics
Parishes	39 (2022)[1]
Members	21,053 (2022)[1]
Information
Rite	Anglican
Cathedral	Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, St. John's
Current leadership
Bishop	Samuel Rose
Map
Boundaries of the diocese within the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada
Website
anglicanenl.net

History

Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, the mother church for Anglicans in Newfoundland and Labrador

In 1976 the Diocese of Newfoundland was reorganised and three autonomous dioceses were created: Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, Central Newfoundland, and Western Newfoundland.

As of 2019, this Diocese allows clergy to officiate at same-sex marriages.^[3][4][5]

Bishops of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador

• Robert Seaborn, 1965–1980 (1965–1976 as Bishop of Newfoundland); Metropolitan of Canada, 1975–1980
• Martin Mate, 1980–1992
• Don Harvey, 1993–2004
• Cyrus Pitman, 2004–2013
• Geoffrey Peddle, 2014–2020
• Samuel Rose, 2020–present^[6]

Parishes

Parish	Location
Cathedral of St. John the Baptist	St. John's
All Saints, CBS	Conception Bay South
The Ascension	Mount Pearl
Bay de Verde	Bay de Verde
Bay Roberts/Foley's Point	Bay Roberts
St. Cyprian & St. Mary	Wabana
St. James	Carbonear
St. Mark’s	Churchill Falls
The Good Shepherd	Mount Pearl
St. Paul's	Harbour Grace
Heart's Content	Heart's Content
The Epiphany	Heart's Delight-Islington
The Holy Innocents Paradise	Paradise
Holy Cross	Norman's Cove-Long Cove
Holy Spirit	Hodge's Cove
The Holy Trinity	Whitbourne
Labrador West	Labrador City
St. Andrew's	Happy Valley-Goose Bay
The Living Water	Arnold's Cove
New Hope	Goulds
Petty Harbour/Bay Bulls/Aquaforte	Paradise
St. Luke's	Port de Grave, Newfoundland
All Saints	Pouch Cove
The Resurrection	South River
St. Peter's	Cartwright
Holy Redeemer	Spaniard's Bay
St. Augustine	St. John's
St. John the Evangelist, C.B.S	Conception Bay South
St. Lawrence	Portugal Cove–St. Philip's
St. Mark the Evangelist	St. John's
St. Mark, Shearstown/Butlerville	Shearstown
St. Mary the Virgin	St. John's
St. Philips, Coady’s Road	Portugal Cove–St. Philip's
St. Thomas	St. John's
St. Timothy, Rigolet	Rigolet
St. Nicholas	Torbay
St. Peter's	Upper Island Cove[7]

Former Schools

• Bishop Feild College^[8]