The decision to create a diocese in the Midwest of the United States was taken on 27 April 2013, at a gathering of 117 Anglican priests and laity, at the Church of the Resurrection, in Wheaton, Illinois.

The movement to initiate a new diocese was started by several parishes in the states of Wisconsin, northern Illinois and Iowa, under the leadership of Robert Munday, former Dean of Nashotah House, a few months before.

The diocese was divided in four deaneries and its first elected bishop was Stewart Ruch, Rector of the Church of the Resurrection, in Wheaton.

[3] In 2019, a lay leader at the church of Christ Our Light in Big Rock, Illinois, Mark Rivera, was charged with two felony counts of criminal sexual assault of a minor and predatory abuse.

[12] On August 15, 2023 and November 6, 2023, the Anglican Church in North America announced that two sets of allegations of abuse mishandling against Ruch would advance to an ecclesiastical trial.