Gerald Nicholas McAllister

Gerald Nicholas McAllister (February 16, 1923 – June 10, 2014) was an American Episcopal bishop. He was the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma from 1977 to 1989.

Early life and education McAllister was born in San Antonio, Texas, on February 16, 1923

Ordained ministry McAllister was ordained to the diaconate on September 30, 1953, and to the priesthood a year later, on September 24, 1954. He married Helen Earle Black on October 2, 1953 and together had four children. His initial post was as deacon, and later priest-in-charge of the Church of the Epiphany in Raymondville, Texas, the Church of the Incarnation in Corpus Christi, Texas, and St Francis' Church in Victoria, Texas, from 1951 until 1963. In 1963, he became a canon to the ordinary in the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas while in 1970 he became rector St David's Church in San Antonio, Texas. In 1967, McAllister was celebrant at the White House wedding of Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of president Lyndon Baines Johnson, to Marine Captain Charles S. Robb.

Death Bishop McAllister died in his native San Antonio, Texas, on June 10, 2014, aged 91.