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{{Short description|American Anglican bishop}}
{{distinguish|William White (bishop of Pennsylvania)}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
| type        = Bishop
| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Reverend]]
| name        = William J. White
| title       = Bishop of the Southeast
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| caption     = 
| church      = [[Anglican Church in North America]]<br/>[[Reformed Episcopal Church]]
| archdiocese = 
| diocese     = [[Diocese of the Southeast (Reformed Episcopal Church)|REC Southeast]]
| see         =
| term        = 2020–2022
| predecessor = [[Alphonza Gadsden]]
| successor   = [[Willie Hill (bishop)|Willie J. Hill Jr.]]
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| ordination     = 
| consecration   = January 17, 2009
| consecrated_by = [[Leonard W. Riches]]
| rank           = 
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| birth_date    = {{birth year and age|1947}}
| birth_place   = [[St. Stephen, South Carolina]]
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'''William Joseph White''' (born 1947) is an American [[Anglicanism|Anglican]] bishop who served as [[bishop|bishop ordinary]] of the [[Reformed Episcopal Church]]'s [[Diocese of the Southeast (Reformed Episcopal Church)|Diocese of the Southeast]].

==Biography==
White was born in [[St. Stephen, South Carolina]]. He received his M.Div. from [[Cummins Theological Seminary]] in [[Summerville, South Carolina]]. He served several churches in the Diocese of the Southeast as a [[presbyter]] before being elected as suffragan bishop in the diocese.<ref name="white-profile">{{cite web |title=Meet Our Bishop |url=http://rec-dse.org/bishop_bio.html |website=Diocese of the Southeast |access-date=17 November 2022}}</ref>

On January 17, 2009, White was consecrated as the suffragan bishop of the Diocese of the Southeast at New Israel Reformed Episcopal Church in Charleston. REC Presiding Bishop [[Leonard W. Riches]] was the chief consecrator, joined by [[Sanco Rembert|Sanco K. Rembert]], [[Alphonza Gadsden]], [[Royal U. Grote Jr.]], [[David L. Hicks]], and [[Ray Sutton|Ray R. Sutton]].<ref name="rec-2017">{{cite journal |title=Consecrations of Bishops |journal=Journal of the Proceedings of the Fifty-Fifth General Council of the Reformed Episcopal Church |year=2017 |page=209 |url=http://www.rechurch.org/documents/GCJournals/GCREC55.pdf |access-date=16 November 2022}}</ref>

White was elected bishop coadjutor in 2015, and on December 12, 2020, he succeeded Gadsden as the eighth bishop ordinary of the Southeast.<ref name="white-profile" /> In September 2022, White retired. Bishop co-adjutor [[Willie Hill (bishop)|Willie J. Hill Jr.]] was installed to succeed White as the ninth bishop ordinary during the diocese's annual synod.<ref name="hill-installation">{{cite web |last1=Sutton |first1=Ray |title=Report of the Bishop Ordinary |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5665ac3ce4b07298bc144cf6/t/633c9dc96c319d33ae109edc/1664916938537/115Reports.pdf |website=Reports for the One Hundred Fifteenth Synod |publisher=Diocese of Mid-America |access-date=21 December 2022 |page=13 |date=October 5, 2022}}</ref> 

==Personal life==

White married Vivian Jenkins in 1970; she died in 2018. They have two surviving children and one deceased child. In 2020, White was remarried to Gail Wilson.<ref name="white-profile" />

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://rec-dse.org/bishop_bio.html Diocesan website profile]

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[[Category:1947 births]]
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[[Category:Bishops of the Anglican Church in North America]]
[[Category:21st-century Anglican bishops in the United States]]
[[Category:Bishops of the Reformed Episcopal Church]]
[[Category:African-American Christian clergy]]