William H. Mead

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William Henry Mead (January 11, 1921 – February 25, 1974) was the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware from 1968 to 1974. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, and studied at Cranbrook School, the University of Michigan, Lake Forest College, and earned a Bachelor of Divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary in 1950. After a short career in the automobile industry, he was ordained a priest in 1951. Mead married Katherine Baldwin Lloyd on July 1, 1950, and they had two children.

Mead served as assistant priest at Christ Church Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, was rector of St. Paul’s Church in Alexandria, Virginia (1952), became associate director of Parishfield Community Church in Brighton, Michigan (1957), and rector of the Church of St. John the Evangelist in Saint Paul, Minnesota (1959–1964). In 1964 he became dean of Christ Church Cathedral in St. Louis, Missouri. He was elected bishop of Delaware on June 28, 1968 and consecrated on November 15, 1968 by Presiding Bishop John E. Hines.

Mead served as bishop until his death from a heart attack in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1974. He was buried at St. Anne’s Episcopal Church in Middletown, Delaware. He was preceded by J. Brooke Mosley and succeeded by William Hawley Clark.