Bill Jenkins (bishop)
American Anglican bishop
William Alan Jenkins Sr. (born 1963) is an American Anglican bishop. He is currently the 13th bishop ordinary of the Reformed Episcopal Church's Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic (NEMA). Prior to his election as coadjutor bishop, he was canon to the ordinary in the diocese.
Early life, education, and family
Jenkins was born in Havre de Grace, Maryland, in 1963, and was raised in a congregation of the fundamentalist Evangelical Methodist Church of America. He received a bachelor's degree in religious education and pastoral studies from Manahath School of Theology, the denominational school in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, and studied for a master's degree in religious education at Manahath. According to Jenkins, his thesis was rejected because he had moved away from the school's fundamentalist and premillennial theology. Before he could complete his degree, the institution closed and relocated to Virginia as Breckbill Bible College. Jenkins is pursuing continuing theological studies at Reformed Episcopal Seminary.
While studying at Manahath, he met his future wife, Kimberley.
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