William F. Lewis

Lewis was ordain deacon on April 6, 1926 by Bishop Paul Matthews and served as deacon of Pennington and Broad Street Missions in Trenton, New Jersey. He was ordained priest on October 18, 1926. He was appointed priest-in-charge of Madison Valley Missions in Montana. In 1931 he became rector of St James' Church in Bozeman, Montana and in 1936 rector of St Paul's Church in Burlington, Vermont.^[2]

On February 18, 1942, Lewis was elected Bishop of Nevada by the House of Bishops. He was consecrated bishop on May 12, 1942, by Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker in Grace Cathedral, San Francisco.^[3] He remained in Nevada till 1959 when he was elected as Coadjutor Bishop of Olympia on 12 June of that year. He assumed his new position on October 1, 1959, and succeeded as diocesan on January 1, 1960. He died in 1964.