The Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota is the iocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America which has jurisdiction over all of Minnesota, except Clay County, which is in the Episcopal Diocese of North Dakota, and Browns Valley, which is in the Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota. It is in Province VI. It has two cathedrals: the Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour in Faribault and St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Minneapolis. Its offices are in Minneapolis. Henry Benjamin Whipple was the first bishop of the diocese. James Jelinek is the current bishop. For a period of time the diocese was split in two, but the Diocese of Duluth was reunited with the Diocese of Minnesota in the 1940s.