We Finally Have A Profile

for The Rt Rev Owen Rhys Williams, something I've been asking for ever since he was named diocesan visitor to the ACA Diocese of the West -- in other words, a year ago. To be noted: he has a BA and an MFA, but not an MDiv. In general, the details correspond to what I could surmise from the limited available information: having attended the spoiled-rich-kid Harvard School in the Valley, what you would expect from the son of an Episcopal rector, he then proceeded to underachieve through much of his adulthood, having apparently spent some time as a ski bum, something I also surmised due to his residence in Granby, Colorado in the 1990s.

Then, as he arrived in middle age, he turned up at St Mark's Portland, where he appears to have ingratiated himself with the abrasive "Bishop" Robin Connors, who by one account from that time reeked of alcohol before noon mass, by another from the same period spoke frequently of how fond he was of vodka-with-grapefruit-juice. That Connors, a Louis Falk protégé who was forced out amid controversy as ACA Bishop of the West soon after ordaining Williams a priest, was responsible for his priestly formation is not a recommendation. Why would anyone want to go near Robin Connors? Couldn't he have done anything better?

Perhaps we finally have a profile for the man -- something every diocese is entitled to, and which it's taken a year to obtain -- because I've been noting its absence. What I'd like to know now is when he learned of Robert W Bowman's arrest for child pornography, what he did when he learned of it, and why Bowman has continued as an "interim priest" under his supervision.

"Bishop" Williams?