The Rt. Rev. R. William Franklin, Assisting Bishop Visits May 21st

Bishop To Preach on May 21st

Bishop R. William Franklin will visit Grace Church on Sunday, May 21st and address the congregation at the 10:00am service. This is his first visit to Grace and is marked as an official visit of the Diocess of Long Island Bishop to Massapequa.  There is no 8:00am service on May 21st.

Bishop Franklin is Assisting Bishop of LongIsland. He was Bishop of the Diocese of Western New York from 2011 – April 2019; and previously served at St. Mark's Church, Philadelphia; at St. Paul's Within the Walls in Rome, for five years; as Associate Director of the American Academy in Rome; and Associate Priest of the Anglican Centre in Rome. 

Earlier, he served as Dean of Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, as a professor at the General Theological Seminary in New York and at St. John's University in Minnesota. 

He holds a BA from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Church History from Harvard.