Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic

The Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, with the Convocation of Eastern Canada, formerly known as the New York and Philadelphia Synod, is a founding jurisdiction of the Reformed Episcopal Church in 1873 and, more recently, a founding diocese of the Anglican Church in North America in 2009. It comprises 27 parishes, 26 of them in five American states – Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York – and one in the Canadian province of Ontario.^[2] The current bishop is Bill Jenkins.^[3]

REC Diocese of Northeast and Mid-Atlantic
Location
Ecclesiastical province	Anglican Church in North America
Statistics
Parishes	23 (2024)[1]
Members	975 (2024)[1]
Information
Rite	Anglican
Current leadership
Bishop ordinary	William A. Jenkins Sr.
Website
Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Official Website

The Reformed Episcopal Church of the United States, founded in 1873, was originally organized into synods. The New York and Philadelphia Synod, one of the REC's founding synods, was renamed the Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic when the nomenclature was changed in 1984.^{[citation needed]}

As part of the Reformed Episcopal Church, the Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic took part in the Anglican realignment movement in the United States, being one of the founding dioceses of the Anglican Church in North America, in 2009.

The diocese is home for the Reformed Episcopal Seminary in Oreland, Pennsylvania.

List of bishops ordinary

Bishops from 1873 to 1984 were bishops of the New York and Philadelphia synod; bishops from 1984 to the present were bishops of the Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.

1. George D. Cummins (1873–1876)
2. William R. Nicholson (1876–1901)
3. James Allen Latané (1901–1902)
4. William T. Sabine (1902–1913)
5. Robert Livingston Rudolph (1913–1930)
6. Robert Westly Peach (1930–1936)
7. William Culbertson III (1937–1942)
8. Howard D. Higgins (1942–1972)^[4]
9. Theophilus J. Herter (1972–1984)
10. Leonard W. Riches (1984–2008)
11. David L. Hicks (2008–2019)
12. R. Charles Gillin (2019–2025)
13. William A. Jenkins Sr. (2025–present)

Parishes

As of 2022, the Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic had 25 parishes.^[5] Notable parishes in the diocese include:

Church	Image	City	Year founded	Year completed	Notes
St. Alban's Church		New York City	1874	1877	Also known as the First Reformed Episcopal Church
Bishop Cummins Reformed Episcopal Church		Catonsville, Maryland	1874	1961	Founded as the Church of the Rock of Ages
Reformed Episcopal Church of the Atonement		Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	1875	1929	Founded as the Third Reformed Episcopal Church
Christ Memorial Reformed Episcopal Church		Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	1887	1888	Location of Reformed Episcopal Seminary campus, 1887–2001. Demolished 2018.
Grace Reformed Episcopal Church		Havre de Grace, Maryland	1910	1910