Episcopal Diocese of Taiwan
Diocese of the Episcopal Church in Taiwan
The Episcopal Diocese of Taiwan (Chinese: 臺灣聖公會), also known as the Taiwan Episcopal Church, is the Anglican diocese in Taiwan and a member diocese of the Episcopal Church of the United States. It was established in 1954, five years after Chinese Episcopalians fled from mainland China to Taiwan following the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949.
Early leadership included American military chaplains connected to the Church of the Good Shepherd or St. John's, but in 1965 the Diocese elected its first Chinese bishop. In late 2019 Lennon Yuan-Jung Chang was elected the sixth Bishop of Taiwan, and was consecrated on February 22, 2020.
It is a diocese of Province 8 of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. In 2024, the diocese reported average Sunday attendance (ASA) of 669 persons.
Keith Chen-Cheng Li elected seventh Bishop of Taiwan on May 9, 2026.
History
From the earliest origins of Anglicanism on Taiwan until 1945, the island was part of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai Diocese of Osaka. As the presence of American Episcopalians on the island grew, the island came under the jurisdiction of the Episcopal Diocese of Honolulu until 1954, when it achieved some independence — the 60th anniversary of this date was celebrated in 2014.
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