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The Right Rev. William O. Gregg, Ph.D.
CMJ Bishop Visitor
I was raised in the Presbyterian Church and confirmed in The Episcopal Church as a
senior in high school before going off to a Baptist university, the University of Richmond. I went to seminary at the Episcopal Divinity School, then in Cambridge, MA, from the Diocese of Virginia, where I was ordained Deacon and Priest. While in seminary, I took a year off to do an MA in medieval English at Boston College.
My wife, Kathy, and I met while I was at seminary through a mutual friend from Boston College. We celebrated our 46th anniversary in May 2023. We have one son and two grandsons.
I served in the Dioceses of Virginia and Southwestern Virginia, including time as a school chaplain and lower school teacher. In 1987, Kathy and I moved to South Bend, IN for graduate school at Notre Dame. After 10 years in Indiana, as a grad student and associate professor of theology at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College in Terre Haute, we went to my last parish, St. James, New London, CT. From there I was elected the sixth Bishop of Eastern Oregon in 2000.
In the Diocese of North Carolina as Bishop Assistant I had responsibility for the Charlotte and Sand Hills Convocations and made Visitations throughout the diocese. I retired in January 2014.
In April 2014 became the Rector of La Iglesia Anglicana San Pablo in San Miguel de Allende, México, until the Spring of 2018. We now live in Salisbury, NC. I now serve as Rector of St. Thomas Church, Reidsville, NC and Adjunct Professor of Systematic Theology at Hood Theological Seminary (AME Zion Church) in Salisbury.