The number of bishops of color who have been consecrated during Frank T. Griswold’s term as Presiding Bishop: 4 (Michael Curry, Bishop of N.C., Wendell Gibbs, Bishop of Mich., Gayle Harris, Suffragan Bishop of Mass.,and Carol Gallagher, Suffragan Bishop of Southern Va.)
The number of those consecrations which Presiding Bishop Griswold has attended:
0 (Thanks to Kwasi Thornell for calling this to my attention.)
Number of Anglican provinces in the worldwide Anglican Communion: 38
Number of domestic (U.S.) dioceses in the Anglican province of the Episcopal Church, USA (ECUSA): 100
Number of non-domestic dioceses in ECUSA: 9 (Colombia, Central Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Europe, Haiti, Honduras, Litoral Ecuador, Taiwan, Virgin Islands)
Number of non-domestic dioceses applying for re-admission to ECUSA: 2 (Puerto Rico and Venezuela)
Number of overseas Anglican provinces with which ECUSA currently hold covenants:
5 (Brazil, Central America, Liberia, Mexico and the Philippines. See http://www.episcopalchurch.org/agr/covenant.html for details.)
Number of dioceses in the Anglican Province of Mexico: 5
Number of Mexican diocesan bishops who have ended ministry in that Anglican province in the past six months: 4 (Samuel Espinoza-Venegas, Primate and Bishop of Western Mexico and German Martinez-Marquez, Bishop of Northern Mexico, are both under investigation for allegedly stealing more than $1 million US dollars from the church, some of it gifts from ECUSA to honor our covenant with the church in Mexico. Sergio Carranza-Gomez left the Diocese of Mexico to become Assistant Bishop of Los Angeles. Martiniano Garcia-Montiel has left his position as Bishop of Cuernevaca, and is serving as the interim primate of the province during this transition period.)
Number of U.S. Presidents since the declaration of the republic: 43
Number of U.S. Presidents who have been Episcopalians: 11 (source: www.adherents.com)
Number of Episcopalians in the 108th U.S. Congress:
45 (10 in the Senate, 35 in the House of Representatives)
Number of grandsons of U.S. presidents in the current Episcopal House of Bishops:
1 (Clifton Daniel, Bishop of East Carolina, grandson of Harry S. Truman)
Number of Episcopal bishops who served as generals in the Army of the Confederacy:
1 (General Leonidas Polk, Bishop of Louisiana, 1841—1864)
Q: Did the Episcopal Church split during the Civil War?
A: Officially "no." Unofficially "yes." The dioceses of the Confederacy met four times during the war, the last two of them as The General Council of The Protestant Episcopal Church of the Confederate States of America. They never officially withdrew from the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
Correction:
In the March/April installment of Louie’s Index, Oklahoma was identified as a domestic diocese which reports deploying no women clergy. This information was taken from data officially collected by Executive Council. However, several women clergy are deployed around the diocese.
Witness contributing editor Louie Crew, founder of Integrity and a longtime Episcopal Church leader
(he currently sits on the Episcopal Church’s Executive Council and the Diocese
of Newark’s deputation to General Convention 2003) is a well-known collector
and disseminator of statistics and little-known facts about the Episcopal Church
and Anglican Communion. His website is www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~lcrew.