Kenneth Lester Price Jr.

Price was ordained deacon and priest in 1968 in the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia. He then served as curate, and then rector, of Trinity Church in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Later, he served as rector of St Andrew's Church in Barboursville, West Virginia. He then became Archdeacon of West Virginia, and rector of St Matthew's Church in Wheeling, West Virginia.^[3]

On June 25, 1994, Price was elected Suffragan Bishop of Southern Ohio on the third ballot. He was then consecrated on October 29, 1994, in Christ Church Cathedral by Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning.^[4] He served as interim bishop of Southern Ohio between 2005 and 2007, in the absence of a diocesan bishop. On September 3, 2009, Price was elected Provisional Bishop of Pittsburgh, and served in that capacity, in addition to remaining Suffragan of Southern Ohio, till 2012, when he retired from both posts.^[5] In 2015, he became an Assistant Bishop in Southern Ohio. After the retirement of diocesan bishop Tom Breidenthal late in 2020, he was called to offer interim leadership there under the title "Bishop in Southern Ohio" while retaining the canonical status of an assistant bishop and working under the authority of the Standing Committee of the diocese.