William Paul Barnds

Barnds was ordained deacon on July 15, 1932, and priest on January 18, 1933, by Bishop Robert Nelson Spencer of West Missouri. He initially served as a lay rector and then deacon in charge of All Saints' Church in Nevada, Missouri, between 1931 and 1933, after which he became its rector until 1935. He transferred to Independence, Kansas, to become rector of Epiphany Church, where he remained until 1944. He was also simultaneously priest-in-charge of Ascension Church in Neodesha, Kansas, between 1937 and 1944 and chairman of the Department of Christian Education in the Diocese of Kansas between 1939 and 1944. He became rector of St James' Church in South Bend, Indiana, while in 1956 rector of Trinity Church in Fort Worth, Texas, where he served until his election to the episcopate.^[2][3]

On June 9, 1966, Barnds was elected Suffragan Bishop of Dallas and was consecrated on September 15, 1966, in St Matthew's Cathedral, by Presiding Bishop John E. Hines. He died in office on January 23, 1973.^[4][5] He was buried at Slater City Cemetery in Slater, Missouri.^{[citation needed]}