William Wilson

This article is about the Anglican bishop. For other uses, see William Wilson (disambiguation).

William Wilson (born 1937 in Philadephia, Pennsylvania) is a bishop in the Anglican Church of the Americas, consecrated March 29, 2008 at Hodges Chapel at Samford University's Beeson Divinity School.

Wilson grew up in inner-city Philadelphia. At 19 he entered a Trappist order. He spent 25 years as a monk, including 7 years in solitary devotion as a hermit, after which he became a chaplain and confessor to a convent and then a novice master at a monastery.

In 1981 Wilson moved to the Andes Mountains of Bolivia as a missionary and founded the Amistad Mission, which supports a school, medical clinic and orphanage in Cochabomba. In 1989 he married a missionary doctor Susan Winchester and became a member of the Episcopal Church and was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Bolivia. He went on to complete a Doctorate in Ministry from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey and then became director of the Spiritual Life Ministry Foundation in Birmingham. He and his wife have adopted two children.

Publications

• Wilson, William (2004) Four Essentials: Classical Disciplines of Christian Spirituality. Birmingham:Spiritual Life Ministry Foundation ISBN 0974748609

References

• "Anglican Church of Americas consecrates Wilson." (April 5, 2008) Birmingham News

External links

• The Spiritual Well, Wilson's website