The Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts is the iocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the five western counties of Massachusetts. Formed from a division of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, it was officially recognized at the organizing convention of November 10, 1901. At a special meeting on January 22, 1902, the Rev. Alexander Hamilton Vinton, D.D., Rector of All Saints Church in Worcester, Massachusetts. was elected first diocesan bishop.