Bishop Charles Jenkins

Bishop Diocese of Louisiana

New Orleans LA 70115

bishop@edola.org

Charles Edward Jenkins III was consecrated bishop coadjutor of Louisiana in New Orleans on Jan. 31, 1998 and was invested as the tenth bishop of Louisiana at Christ Church Cathedral, New Orleans, on March 28,1998. He serves a diocese of 54 congregations with a communicant strength of 20,000 prior to the 2005 hurricanes. He graduated from Nashotah House Seminary in 1976 and was awarded honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees from Nashotah House in 1992 and The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1999. In his pursuit of continuing education, he studied for five years with Rabbi Edwin Friedman. Jenkins was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop James Brown in 1977.