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{{Short description|Diocese of the Episcopal Church of the United States}}
{{Infobox diocese
|jurisdiction     = Diocese
|name             = Taiwan
|local            = {{lang|zh-hant|臺灣聖公會}}
|country          = Taiwan
|denomination     = [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church]]
|coat             = Episcopal Diocese of Taiwan.png
|coat_size        = 125px
|province         = [[Province 8 of the Episcopal Church|Province VIII]]<br />(formerly [[Nippon Sei Ko Kai]])
|bishop           = Lennon Yuan-Jung Chang 
|suffragans       = 
|cathedral        = [[St. John's Episcopal Cathedral, Taipei|St. John's Cathedral, Taipei]]
|congregations    = 15 (2023)
|members          = 1,216 (2023)
|website          = [http://www.episcopalchurch.org.tw episcopalchurch.org.tw]
}}
The '''Episcopal Diocese of Taiwan''' ({{lang-zh|t=臺灣聖公會|s=台湾圣公会|first=t|l=Episcopal Church of Taiwan}}) is the [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] [[diocese]] in [[Taiwan]] and a member diocese of the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church of the United States]]. It was established in 1954, five years after [[Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui|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,<ref>"Taiwan," https://episcopalchurch.org/diocese/taiwan accessed February 10, 2020</ref> 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.<ref name="chang-el" />

It is a diocese of [[Province 8 of the Episcopal Church|Province 8 of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America]].

==History==
[[Image:Taipei Chung-Shan Presbyterian Church 02.JPG|right|thumb|Chungshan Presbyterian Church (originally the Taisho-cho Anglican Church during the Japanese Rule) in Taipei]]
From the earliest origins of Anglicanism on Taiwan (in or before 1895) until 1945, the island was part of the [[Nippon Sei Ko Kai]] [[Diocese of Osaka]].<ref name="ENS60">{{cite web |website=Episcopal News Service |title=House of Bishops begins historic meeting in Taiwan (Section: History of Anglican and Episcopal Churches on Taiwan) |url=https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2014/09/17/house-of-bishops-begins-historic-meeting-in-taiwan/ |date=September 17, 2014 |author-last=Schjonberg |author-first=Mary Frances |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220104185656/https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2014/09/17/house-of-bishops-begins-historic-meeting-in-taiwan/ |archive-date=January 4, 2022 |access-date=January 2, 2022}}</ref> As the presence of American Episcopalians on the island grew, the island came under the jurisdiction of the [[Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii|Episcopal Diocese of Honolulu]] until 1954, when it achieved some independence — the 60th anniversary of this date was celebrated in 2014.<ref name="ENS60" /> In 1961, Taiwan was organised into a missionary diocese of the Episcopal Church (USA); and in 1988 it was accepted as a full diocese of the church.<ref name="ENS60" />
==Parishes==
[[Image:Church of Good Shepherd, Taipei.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Church of the Good Shepherd (Taipei)|Church of the Good Shepherd]] in Taipei]]
Parishes of the diocese:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.episcopalchurch.org.tw/|title=台灣聖公會|website=www.episcopalchurch.org.tw|access-date=2008-02-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916162805/http://www.episcopalchurch.org.tw/|archive-date=2008-09-16|url-status=dead}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
! Church !! Address
|-
| Epiphany Chapel || 7, Lane 105, Section 1, Hangzhou South Road, [[Zhongzheng District]], [[Taipei City]]
|-
| Advent Church || 499 Sec.4 Danjin Road, Tamsui District, New Taipei City (inside St. John's University)
|-
| [[St. John's Episcopal Cathedral, Taipei|St. John's Cathedral]] (Diocesan Cathedral) || 280, Section 2, Fuxing South Road, [[Daan District, Taipei|Daan District]], Taipei City
|-
| [[Church of the Good Shepherd (Taipei)|Church of the Good Shepherd]] || 509 Zhongzheng Road, [[Shilin District]], Taipei City<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goodshepherd.com.tw/|title=台灣聖公會牧愛堂 - 首頁}}</ref>
|-
| St. Thomas Church || 86 Minyou Street, Linkou District, New Taipei City
|-
| [[Holy Trinity Church (Keelung)|Holy Trinity Church]] || 163 Tung Ming Road, [[Keelung City]]
|-
| St. Stephen's Church || No. 29, Aly. 6, Ln. 168, Zhonghe Rd., Zhongshan Dist., [[Keelung City]]
|-
|[[St. Luke's Church (Hualien)|St. Luke's Church]] || 1-6 Ming Hsin Street, [[Hualien City]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.episcopalchurch.org.tw/churchData.jsp?code=9|title=台灣聖公會|website=www.episcopalchurch.org.tw}}</ref>
|-
|Episcopal Church in Hsinchu || 12 Guanxin N. Street, [[Hsinchu City]]
|-
|St. James Church || No. 23, Section 1, Wuquan West Road, West District, [[Taichung City]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.episcopalchurch.org.tw/churchData.jsp?code=7|title=台灣聖公會|website=www.episcopalchurch.org.tw}}</ref>
|-
|St. Peter's Church || 8 Hsin Chung Street, [[Chiayi City]]
|-
|Grace Church || 24 Lane 550 Tsung Te Road, [[Tainan City]]
|-
|All Saints' Church || 5 Chieh Shou Road, [[Gangshan District]], [[Kaohsiung City]]
|-
|St. Paul's Church || 200 Tzu Chiang 1st Road, [[Sanmin District]], Kaohsiung City
|-
|St. Timothy's Church || 3F. No. 262 Chung-hsiao 1st. Rd. [[Sinsing District]], Kaohsiung City
|-
|St. Mark's Church || 120 - 11 Chung Hsiao Road, [[Pingtung City]]
|}

==Bishops==
From 1954 until 1960, [[Harry S. Kennedy]], Bishop of Hawaii, had direct care of Taiwan; from 1961 until 1964, Charles P. Gilson, Suffragan Bishop of Honolulu, was delegated care of the missionary diocese and was resident on the island.<ref name="ENS60" />

Further bishops of the missionary diocese were:
* [[James C. L. Wong]] (1965–1970; {{zh|王長齡}}; formerly [[Bishop of Sabah|Bishop of Jesselton]])
* [[James Pong]] (1971–1979; {{zh|龐德明}})
* [[Pui-Yeung Cheung]] (1980–1987; {{zh|張培揚}})

Since full diocesan status was granted, the bishops diocesan have been:
* [[John C. T. Chien]] (1988–2001; {{zh|簡啟聰}})
* [[David Jung-Hsin Lai]] (2001–2020; {{zh|賴榮信}})
* Lennon Yuan-Rung Chang (2020–present; {{zh|張員榮}})

===Charles P. Gilson===
<!--this section is redirected to; its title should be preserved-->Charles Packard Gilson ({{zh|吉爾生}}; September 3, 1899, [[Portland, Maine]]{{snd}}August 11, 1980, [[New London, New Hampshire]]),<ref name="HKA-bishops">{{cite web |website=Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Archives |title=Bishops of the Episcopal Diocese of Taiwan, 1954–2020 |url=http://archives.hkskh.org/uploads/%E6%AD%B7%E4%BB%BB%E8%81%96%E5%85%AC%E5%AE%97%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E4%B8%BB%E6%95%99/Revise%206%20Bishops%20of%20the%20Episcopal%20Diocese%20of%20Taiwan.pdf |date=May 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220104183648/http://archives.hkskh.org/uploads/%E6%AD%B7%E4%BB%BB%E8%81%96%E5%85%AC%E5%AE%97%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E4%B8%BB%E6%95%99/Revise%206%20Bishops%20of%20the%20Episcopal%20Diocese%20of%20Taiwan.pdf |archive-date=January 4, 2022 |access-date=January 4, 2022}}</ref> was consecrated a bishop at [[Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Detroit)|St&nbsp;Paul's Cathedral, Detroit]] during the Episcopal Church's 1961 General Convention. He had been missionary-in-charge at Taipei since 1958 when Convention elected him Suffragan Bishop of Honolulu in order to be the bishop resident on Taiwan. In 1964, his geographical jurisdiction (but not his post as Suffragan) was shifted to [[Okinawa Island|Okinawa]].<ref>{{cite web |website=Episcopal Archives |title=Retired Bishop Gilson Dies |date=August 21, 1980 |url=https://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=80269 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220104195806/https://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=80269 |archive-date=January 4, 2022 |access-date=January 4, 2022}}</ref>
===Lennon Yuan-Rung Chang===
{{family name hatnote|[[Chang (surname)|Chang/Zhang]] (張)|lang=Chinese}}
<!--this section is redirected to; its title should be preserved-->Lennon Yuan-Rung Chang (given name Yuan-Rung/Yuanrong, English name Lennon; {{zh|張員榮}}) was consecrated a bishop on February 22, 2020 at [[St. John's Episcopal Cathedral, Taipei|St&nbsp;John's Cathedral, Taipei]].<ref name="HKA-bishops" /> Deaconed in 1995 and priested in 1999, he served as Chaplain of [[St. John's University (Taiwan)]] (1997&ndash;2016) and then as Vicar/Rector of Advent Church (on the same campus); he was also an associate professor of Mathematics at the university (1983&ndash;2016). Chang was elected bishop diocesan on August 3, 2019<ref name="chang-el">{{cite web| website=Episcopal News Service |title=Lennon Yuan-Rung Chang elected next bishop of Taiwan |date=August 5, 2019 |url=https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2019/08/05/lennon-yuan-rung-chang-elected-next-bishop-of-taiwan/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514104722/https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2019/08/05/lennon-yuan-rung-chang-elected-next-bishop-of-taiwan/ |archive-date=May 14, 2021 |access-date=January 4, 2022}}</ref> and was duly consecrated and installed in 2020 by [[Michael Curry (bishop)|Michael Curry]], [[Presiding bishop#Episcopal Church in the United States|Presiding Bishop]] (assisted by co-consecrators: Lai Jung-Hsin, then-Bishop of Taiwan; [[Robert Fitzpatrick (bishop)|Bob Fitzpatrick]], [[Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii|Bishop of Hawaii]]; [[Nathaniel Makoto Uematsu]], Primate of [[Nippon Sei Ko Kai]]; [[Haruhisa Iso]], [[Bishop of Osaka]]; and [[Greg Rickel]], [[Episcopal Diocese of Olympia|Bishop of Olympia]]).<ref>{{cite web| website=Episcopal News Service |title=Lennon Yuan-Rung Chang consecrated and installed as bishop of Taiwan |date=February 25, 2020 |url=https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2020/02/25/lennon-yuan-rung-chang-consecrated-and-installed-as-bishop-of-taiwan/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306173137/https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2020/02/25/lennon-yuan-rung-chang-consecrated-and-installed-as-bishop-of-taiwan/ |archive-date=March 6, 2021 |access-date=January 4, 2022}}</ref> He served briefly as [[coadjutor bishop]] and succeeded as bishop diocesan automatically upon Lai's retirement in March 2020.<ref name="chang-el" />

==See also==
* [[Anglican Communion]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.episcopalchurch.org.tw}}
* [http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/Chinese1928/Chinese_1928.htm Morning Prayer and Holy Communion in Chinese (1928)] liturgical material digitized by Charles Wohlers and Richard Mammana

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