Wallace John Gardner, born in Buffalo, is elected sixth bishop. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1911 by William Croswell Doane, bishop of Albany, and son of New Jersey’s second bishop.

Mrs William McKay of Camden is the first African-American elected to represent the diocese at the 1937 Triennial meeting of the Women’s Auxiliary.

In Mahwah, Les Paul invents what is the first solid body electric guitar. And Bruce Springsteen, New Jersey native, is born nine years later.

The Women’s Auxiliary sends more than 2,000 Christmas gifts to Fort Dix and further boxes to Japanese-American children interned at a relocation center in Idaho.

The Evergreens moves from Bound Brook to Moorestown.

Construction begins on the New Jersey Turn Pike. It is completed a mere 23 months later, in 1951.

The diocese has 166 clergymen and 45,000 communicants.

Trinity Cathedral is at last completed, and Bishop Matthews, who spearheaded its creation, lives just long enough to see it.

Fifty men are studying at college and seminary for the priesthood.

Alfred Lothian Banyard is elected the seventh Bishop of New Jersey, having served as suffragan since 1945.

The Women’s Auxiliary becomes Episcopal Church Women. Bishop Banyard: “Women are of prime importance in the church and not just auxiliary to it.”

Changes in the church come rapidly and Bishop Banyard finds many not to his liking. Eventually the bishop stops attending General Convention.

The Diocese of New Jersey reaches it high point in numbers of people, with 66,473 communicants.

New Jersey ordains its first female priest.

The ninth bishop of New Jersey is G. P. Mellick Belshaw, who was suffragan bishop before his election.

Bishop Belshaw proposes a unified diocesan budget to replace the two-budget system. His proposal is ratified by convention.

Joe Morris Doss is elected tenth bishop of New Jersey. He is rector of St Mark’s, Palo Alto, California.

The Right Reverend Herbert Donovan begins serving as assisting bishop, after Bishop Doss and the diocese agree that his ministry will be conducted primarily outside the diocese. Doss will remain Bishop of New Jersey until 2001.

Bishop David Joslin agrees to serve as assisting bishop in the diocese.

Five parishes in the diocese celebrate their tercentenaries: Burlington, Freehold, Middletown, Shrewsbury, and Wood bridge. Well done, 300-year-olds!

The Diocese of New Jersey: Esto perpetua!