Michael Williams (bishop)
{{Short description|American bishop of the Anglican Church in North America}}
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| honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend
| name = Michael R. Williams
| title = Bishop Suffragan of the Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy
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| church = Anglican Church in North America
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| diocese = Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy
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| term = 2018–2025
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| ordination = August 1989 (diaconate)
September 1990 (priesthood)
| consecration = April 12, 2018
| consecrated_by = Foley Beach
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| alma_mater = Iowa State University
Trinity School for Ministry
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Michael R. Williams is an American bishop of the Anglican Church in North America. A retired U.S. Air Force chaplain, he served from 2018 to 2025 as bishop suffragan in the ACNA's Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy (JAFC).
Biography
Williams married his wife, Becky, in 1976,{{cite web |title=The Right Reverend Michael Williams |url=https://www.stgac.org/bishop-michael-williams.html |website=St. George's Anglican Church |access-date=14 November 2022}} and they have three daughters and five granddaughters.{{cite web |title=Two Bishops Elected to Strengthen the Ministry of Chaplains |url=https://anglicanchurch.net/two-bishops-elected-to-strengthen-the-ministry-of-chaplains/ |website=Anglican Church in North America |access-date=14 November 2022}} In 1977, he received his B.A. in political science from Iowa State University. He joined the U.S. Air Force as an officer after graduation.
After receiving a call to ordained ministry, he attended Trinity School for Ministry and was ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church in North Pole, Alaska, while serving at Eielson Air Force Base. From 1991 to 1995, he served at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Williams joined the chaplaincy of the Air Force in 1995 and served until his retirement in 2009, at which time he joined the staff of the ACNA's Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy.
He was consecrated as bishop suffragan alongside Mark Nordstrom on April 12, 2018, in Birmingham, Alabama.{{cite news |title=ACNA consecrates two suffragan bishops for the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy |url=https://anglican.ink/2018/04/14/acna-consecrates-two-suffragan-bishops-for-the-armed-forces-and-chaplaincy/ |access-date=14 November 2022 |work=Anglican Ink |date=April 14, 2018}} Williams serves as director of education, training, and formation for the Anglican chaplains.{{cite web |title=Our Bishops |url=https://www.anglicanchaplains.org/about |website=Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy |access-date=14 November 2022}} Like other JAFC bishops, his canonical residence was in the Church of Nigeria North American Mission until 2021, when the JAFC completed the canonical process for removing its residence in the Church of Nigeria and becoming canonically resident in the ACNA.{{cite web |last1=Atwood |first1=Bill |title=An Update on the Jurisdiction for the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy |url=https://anglicanchurch.net/an-update-on-the-jurisdiction-for-the-armed-forces-and-chaplaincy/ |publisher=Anglican Church in North America |access-date=1 November 2022}} Since 2009, Williams has also been a priest or bishop-in-residence at St. George's Anglican Church in Colorado Springs, a congregation of the Anglican Diocese of All Nations.
Williams and Nordstrom retired in 2025 and were replaced by newly elected bishops Jay Cayangyang and Marshall MacClellan.{{cite web |title=Welcome Two New Bishops to JAFC |url=https://anglicanchurch.net/welcome-two-new-bishops-to-jafc/ |publisher=Anglican Church in North America |access-date=26 June 2025 |date=June 24, 2025}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.stgac.org/bishop-michael-williams.html St. George's Anglican Church profile page]
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Category:21st-century Anglican bishops in the United States