The Right Reverend

William Jerry Winterrowd

D.D.
Bishop of Colorado
ChurchEpiscopal Church
DioceseColorado
ElectedSeptember 29, 1990
In office1991–2004
PredecessorWilliam Frey
SuccessorRobert John O'Neill
Orders
OrdinationApril 25, 1964
by Girault M. Jones
ConsecrationJanuary 19, 1991
by Edmond L. Browning
Personal details
Born (1938-07-24) July 24, 1938
NationalityAmerican
DenominationAnglican
ParentsWilliam Perry Winterrowd & Ruth Davis
Spouse
Ann LaBarre
(m. 1964)
EducationGeneral Theological Seminary
Alma materCentenary College of Louisiana

William Jerry Winterrowd (born July 24, 1938) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado from 1991 to 2004. He was elected in 1990[1] and retired in January 2004.

Biography

Winterrowd was born on July 24, 1938, in Shreveport, Louisiana, the son of William Perry Winterrowd and Ruth Davis. He studied at the Centenary College of Louisiana, and then at the General Theological Seminary. On August 25, 1964, he married Ann LaBarre.[2]

He was ordained deacon on June 15, 1963, and priest on April 25, 1964. He then served as curate at St James' Church in Alexandria, Louisiana till 1965, when he joined the Episcopal Mission Society in New York where he ministered to abandoned children till 1975. In 1976, he became the Executive Director of the Episcopal Community Services in the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, while in 1980, he was appointed in the same position but within the Diocese of Minnesota. Whilst in Minneapolis, he served as interim rector of Gethsemane Church between 1981 and 1983. In 1985, he became rector of St James the Less' Church in Scarsdale, New York, where he remained till 1991.[3]

Winterrowd was elected as the ninth Bishop of Colorado on September 29, 1990, and was consecrated on January 19, 1991.[4] He retired in January 2004.

References

  1. "Overseas Appointments". Church Times. No. 6664. 2 November 1990. p. 5. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 22 July 2019 via UK Press Online archives.
  2. "Marriages". The Episcopal Church Annual. 149: 45. 4 October 1964.
  3. "Episcopal Leader Here Sunday", Steamboat Pilot & Today, 17 June 1993, Steamboat Springs, CO. Retrieved on 23 January 2021.
  4. "WILLIAM JERRY WINTERROWD (860)". The Episcopal Church Annual: 348. 1992.
  • Episcopal Clerical Directory, 2015


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