Charles D. Williams

Charles David Williams (July 30, 1860 – February 14, 1923) was the fourth Bishop of Michigan in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. He was an advocate of the "Social Gospel" views of Walter Rauschenbusch.

Personal Charles David Williams was born July 30, 1860, in Bellevue, Ohio. He was educated at Kenyon College and Bexley Hall where he was ordained an Episcopal deacon on June 17, 1883, and priest on October 30, 1884. He died February 14, 1923.

Professional Williams served as priest of Fernbank, Ohio, and Riverside, Ohio, from 1884 to 1889; as deacon at St. Paul's in Steubenville, Ohio, from 1889 to 1893; and as dean of Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland from 1893 to 1906. In 1906, he was consecrated as bishop of the Michigan Diocese of the Episcopal Church, where he remained until his death in 1923. In 1921, he attended a seminar in England that studied the English labor movement in its relation with the church.