Alexander Gregg an Episcopal clergyman, was the first bishop

Bishop

A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

 of Texas

Episcopal Diocese of Texas

The Episcopal Diocese of Texas is one of the largest dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. The diocese consists of all ECUSA congregations in the southeastern quartile of Texas, including the cities of Austin, Beaumont, Galveston, Houston and Waco.The 153 congregations...

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Gregg was the first elected
Bishop of Texas in 1859. His diocese covered
the entire state of Texas. Bishop
Gregg presided through the difficult days of
the Civil War and Reconstruction, and gave
leadership as Texas changed from frontier
to settled community. He saw the number
of churches in his diocese grow from six to
sixty. In 1874, toward the end of his episcopate,
Gregg presided over the division of the Diocese of Texas
into three dioceses - two new missionary districts of West Texas
and North Texas. The Diocese of Texas retained the name of the
original diocese in our present boundaries. Now there are a total of
six separate bishoprics (dioceses) in the state: the Dioceses of Texas,
West Texas, Dallas, Fort Worth, Northwest Texas and western most
Texas attached to New Mexico as the Diocese of the Rio Grande.

External links

• Alexander Gregg, First Bishop of Texas by His Son, the Late Wilson Gregg online biography (1912)