The Rt. Rev. R. William Franklin is Assisting Bishop of Long Island. He was Bishop of Western New York from 2011 to 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. Previously, 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.
