William Franklin

William Alfred Franklin (16 July 191611 February 1998) was a British Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Colombia (in the Episcopal Church, USA, 1972–1978) and as full-time Assistant Bishop of Peterborough (in the Church of England, 1978–1986).

Early life and family William Alfred Franklin was born on 16 July 1916, the son of George Amos Franklin and Mary Anne Catherine Franklin. He was schooled in London and trained for the ministry at Kelham Theological College. He married Winifred Agnes Jarvis in 1945; they went on to have one son and one daughter. and ordained a priest the Trinity Sunday following (8 June 1941), both times by Geoffrey Fisher, Bishop of London, at St Paul's Cathedral. He served his first curacy at St John on Bethnal Green, as well as a Chaplain to the Air Training Corps (ATC) and to the University Settlements; in 1943 he resigned all these posts to become curate of St John's, Palmers Green, and chairman for Interdenominational Youth Activities (Edmonton area). he was consecrated the following year. (and an honorary canon of the Cathedral) until his retirement in 1986. he lived in Great Billing and developed Parkinson's. He was made canon emeritus of that cathedral on retirement, and he became an honorary assistant bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, 1987–1992, where he had retired to Walmer.