Michael Williams

Michael R. Williams is an American Anglican bishop. A retired U.S. Air Force chaplain, he served from 2018 to 2025 as bishop suffragan in the Anglican Church in North America's Special Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy (SJAFC).

Biography Williams married his wife, Becky, in 1976, and they have three daughters and five granddaughters. In 1977, he received his B.A. in political science from Iowa State University. Williams serves as director of education, training, and formation for the Anglican chaplains. Like other JAFC bishops, his canonical residence was in the Church of Nigeria North American Mission until 2021, when the JAFC completed the canonical process for removing its residence in the Church of Nigeria and becoming canonically resident in the ACNA. Since 2009, Williams has also been a priest or bishop-in-residence at St. George's Anglican Church in Colorado Springs. After retiring in 2025, he was inhibited from ministry in the ACNA in January 2026. He was indicted on canonical charges in the ACNA in May 2026, although by that point he had joined the breakaway Anglican Reformed Catholic Church founded by former ACNA chaplaincy bishop Derek Jones.