ONE of the region’s leading Christian ministers, known as ‘Father Bill’ in Bahrain and the Dean of St Christopher’s Cathedral, will be flying off into retirement in the US on Saturday after spending most of his life caring for congregations in the Middle East and spreading a message of goodwill to all.
He continued to be Archdeacon in the Gulf, a much-valued colleague and friend of The Right Rev’d Michael Lewis, Bishop of the Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf, and when he arrived in the kingdom in April 2019, he could not have envisioned that his crisis management skills would be brought to the fore in such extraordinary circumstances .