Gilbert Wilson (bishop)

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William Gilbert Wilson (23 January 1918 – 21 June 1999)[http://www.ireland.anglican.org/Archives/pressreleases/prarchive1999/bpwilson.html Press release on his death] was Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh from 1981 to 1993.

Educated at Belfast Royal Academy and Trinity College, Dublin"Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}} and ordained in 1942, his first posts were curacies at St Mary Magdalene, Belfast[http://www.st-marymagdalene.org.uk/index.html Church web-site] and St Comgall's, Bangor.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76. London: Oxford University Press, 1976. {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} Following these he was Rector of Armoy and then Dean of Connor (1976–1981) before appointment to the episcopate as the fourteenth bishop diocesan of the united Diocese.

He served as editor of The Church of Ireland Gazette from 1963 to 1966.