Tags: Clerical Administrative Region, Diocese.
The Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem covers fourteen counties in Pennsylvania to the north and west of Philadelphia. Following the retirement of the Rt. Rev. Paul Marshall on December 31 2013 the diocese’s ecclesiastical authority rested in its Standing Committee. A special convention took place on March 1 2014 electing the Rt. Rev. Sean Rowe Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania as Provisional Bishop. The cathedral is the Cathedral Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.