Companion Diocese

Since 2001, the Diocese of Georgia has maintained a Companion Diocese relationship with the Diocese of the Dominican Republic. In 2023, the delegates to the Annual Convention of the Diocese of Georgia voted unanimously to renew the Companion Diocese relationship for five years. Although some churches and individuals in the Diocese of Georgia sponsor mission trips to other international locations, most of the international mission activity from the Diocese each year is to the Dominican Republic.

Bishop Frank and Victoria Logue are taking part in a mission trip in July 2026 as a part of this ongoing connection between the two dioceses.

St. Peter’s (on Skidaway Island in Savannah) sponsors an optical clinic team and a cataract surgical team – the Gift of Sight Mission Team — to work in the Episcopal medical clinic, La Clinica Esperanza y Caridad, in the city of San Pedro de Macorís. The mission team typically examines the eyes of nearly 1,000 adults and children and distributes more than 1,500 pairs of glasses. The mission includes a weeklong surgical team, which can perform 100 cataract operations, literally returning sight to the blind.

The Episcopal Church and the Diocese of the Dominican Republic

The Diocese of the Dominican Republic is a member of The Episcopal Church’s Province IX along with the Dioceses of Colombia, Central Ecuador, Litoral Ecuador, Honduras, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. Mission teams from the United States working alongside Episcopal congregations in the Dominican Republic have helped to build and fund many of the ongoing construction projects, social welfare centers, and school programs of the Dominican diocese. The Diocese now includes 60 churches, 22 schools and two health clinics. The Rt. Rev. Moises Quezada has been the bishop of the diocese since 2018.

The Dominican Development Group

The Diocese of Georgia coordinates the work of our diocesan mission teams working closely with Bishop Moises, through the Mission Team Support Office of the Diocese of the Dominican Republic and with the Dominican Development Group. The DDG is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization within the Episcopal Church that coordinates the work of all of the companion dioceses to help the Diocese of the Dominican Republic strengthen its programs and maintain financial self-sufficiency. The DDG Executive Director Christy Wallace is a parishioner in the Diocese of Georgia: (cwallace@dominicandevelopmentgroup.org)

The Diocese of Georgia allocates $10,000 in its budget to support the work of the Dominican Development Group (DDG). Bishop Logue and his designated representative are members of the DDG Board of Directors. The DDG is a consortium of the eleven dioceses (Central Gulf Coast, Eastern Michigan, Georgia, Michigan, Nebraska, Northwest Texas, The Episcopal Church in South Carolina, Southeast Florida, Southwest Florida, Western Louisiana, and Western Michigan) with companion relationships with the Diocese of the Dominican Republic. The DDG assists the 50+ U.S. mission teams traveling to the Dominican Republic and raises funds for the DR diocesan endowment. The endowment supports the operations and the financial stability of the diocese. Additional diocesan funds are budgeted to support travel expenses to attend DDG board meetings in the United States and in the Dominican Republic. Beyond that, all costs of our dynamic relationship with our Dominican Episcopal partners are borne by parishes and individuals that choose to contribute their time and labor and/or their financial resources to projects chosen for mission teams.