Diocese of Newfoundland#Bishops

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The Anglican Diocese of Newfoundland was, from its creation in 1839 until 1879, the Diocese of Newfoundland and Bermuda, with the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist at St. John's, Newfoundland, and a chapel-of-ease named Trinity Church in the City of Hamilton in Pembroke Parish, Bermuda (not to be confused either with the Parish church for Pembroke Parish, St. John's, or with Holy Trinity Church, the parish church of Hamilton Parish).{{cite web |url=http://www.anglican.bm/index.php/worship/our-churches.html |title=Our Churches: Pembroke Parish |author= |date= |website=Anglican Church of Bermuda |publisher=Anglican Church of Bermuda |access-date=2021-08-28 |quote=}}

Newfoundland and Bermuda had both been parts of British North America until they were left out of the 1867 Confederation of Canada.{{cite magazine |author= |title=CIVIL LIST OF THE PROVINCE OF LOWER-CANADA 1828: GOVERNOR |url= |magazine=The Quebec Almanack and British American Royal Kalendar For The Year 1828 |location=Quebec |publisher=Neilson and Cowan, No. 3 Mountain Street |date=1812 |access-date=}}{{cite magazine |author= |title=STAFF of the ARMY in the Provinces of Nova-Scotia, New-Brunswick, and their Dependencies, including the Island of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, Prince Edward and Bermuda |url= |magazine=The Quebec Almanack and British American Royal Kalendar For The Year 1828 |location=Quebec |publisher=Neilson and Cowan, No. 3 Mountain Street |date=1812 |access-date=}}{{cite book |last=Young |first=Douglas MacMurray |author-link= |date=1961 |title=The Colonial Office in The Early Nineteenth Century |url= |location=London |publisher=Published for the Royal Commonwealth Society by Longmans |page=55 |isbn=}} In 1842, her jurisdiction was described as "Newfoundland, the Bermudas".{{cite book |title=The Colonial Church Atlas, Arranged in Dioceses: with Geographical and Statistical Tables. |date=May 1842 |publisher=SPG |location=London |edition=second |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Am2zvwEACAAJ&pg=PP15 |access-date=28 September 2022}} In 1879 the Church of England in the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda (since 1978, an extra-provincial[http://www.anglicancommunion.org/tour/index.cfm Anglican Communion Provincial Directory] diocese of the archbishop of Canterbury re-titled the Anglican Church of Bermuda) was created, but continued to be grouped with the Diocese of Newfoundland under the bishop of Newfoundland and Bermuda until 1919, when Newfoundland and Bermuda each received its own bishop.[https://www.worldanglican.com/bermuda/hamilton/bermuda-extra-provincial-to-canterbury/the-rt-revd-nicholas-dill The Rt Revd Nicholas Dill, Bermuda (Extra-Provincial to Canterbury), Bishop of Bermuda. World Anglican.com][https://web.archive.org/web/20101116024704/http://anglican.nfol.ca/history.php History. Anglican Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador][https://anglicanenl.net/home/our-history/ Our History. Anglican Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador]{{cite web |url=https://anglicanenl.net/home/our-history |title=Our History |author= |date= |website=Anglican East NL |publisher=Anglican Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador |access-date=2021-08-17 |quote=}}{{cite web |url=https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/society/anglicanism.php |title=The Church of England |last=Piper |first=Liza |date=2000 |website=Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador |publisher=Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site |access-date=2021-08-17 |quote=}}

In 1976 the Diocese of Newfoundland was reorganised and three autonomous dioceses were created namely the Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, the Central Newfoundland, and the Western Newfoundland.

The three dioceses jointly support Queen's College, other ministries and have many common interests.