William Millsaps

{{short description|20th and 21st-century bishop of the Episcopal Missionary Church}} {{BLP sources|date=April 2008}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | name = William Millsaps | title = Presiding Bishop | image = | alt = | caption = | church = Episcopal Missionary Church | archdiocese = | diocese = | see = Diocese of the South | term = 2000 to 2010; 2014- | predecessor = A. Donald Davies; Council Nedd II (between terms) | successor =  | ordination = | ordinated_by = | consecration = | consecrated_by = | rank =  | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1939|12|19}} | birth_place = Greenwood, Mississippi | death_date = | death_place = | previous_post = }}

'''William Wesley Millsaps''' (born December 19, 1939) is a Continuing Anglican bishop. He is bishop of the Episcopal Missionary Church. He is the rector of Christ Church in Monteagle, Tennessee.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emchome.org/article/103/directory-of-parishes/tennessee/christ-church-cathedral |title=Christ Church Cathedral |work=Directory of Parishes |publisher=Episcopal Missionary Church}}</ref> He had served previously as presiding bishop from 2001-2010. He was elected again in December 2014 at a Synod held at Christ Church, Warrenton, Virginia.

Millsaps graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961. At the General Theological Seminary he received a Master of Divinity degree in 1966, and he received a Doctor of Ministry degree in 1978 from the Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.

Millsaps served as a parish minister for The Church of the Incarnation in Dallas, Texas, and as a school chaplain at St. Mark’s School and Canterbury House, the Episcopal chapel at Southern Methodist University.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.chattanoogan.com/2004/7/7/52549/St.-Andrews-Anglican-Church-Has.aspx |title=St. Andrew’s Anglican Church Has Opening Service |date=July 7, 2004 |newspaper=The Chattanoogan}}</ref> From 1981 to 1987 he was the university chaplain at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee.

Millsaps was originally consecrated a bishop for the American Episcopal Church on 26 January 1991 in the Chapel of the Cross in Dallas, Texas by Primus Anthony F. M. Clavier of the AEC, assisted by Bishops Mark Holliday, Walter Grundorf, G. Raymond Hanlan, and Norman Stewart.{{citation needed|date=October 2013}}

On 3 October 1991 he was ''sub-conditione'' consecrated as a bishop in the Anglican Catholic Church by retired Anglican Communion traditionalist bishops Robert W. S. Mercer, Charles Boynton, and Robert Mize.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LsaRNfK49vsC&pg=PA95|title=The Apostolic Succession and the Catholic Episcopate in the Christian Episcopal Church of Canada|first=Robert David |last=Redmile |page=95}}</ref> From 2000 to 2010, he was the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Missionary Church. As of 2013, he is bishop for that body's Diocese of the South.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.holycrossanglican.org/history-affiliation.html |title=Our History |publisher=Holy Cross Anglican Church}}</ref>

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==External links== * [https://www.emchome.org/ Episcopal Missionary Church website]

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