Charles Wallis Ohl
| The Right Reverend C. Wallis Ohl |
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| Provisional Bishop of Fort Worth | |
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| Province |
The Episcopal Church 
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| Diocese | Fort Worth |
| See | Fort Worth, Texas |
| Term ended | Incumbent |
| Predecessor |
Edwin F. Gulick Jr. (Provisional) |
| Successor | Raymond High (Provisional) |
| Other posts | Bishop of Northwest Texas |
| Orders | |
| Ordination |
December 1973 (deacon) |
| Consecration | 1997 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 21, 1943 Bay City, TX |
Edwin F. Gulick Jr. (Provisional)
December 1973 (deacon)
Charles Wallis Ohl Jr. (born October 21, 1943) was the Provisional Bishop of Fort Worth in The Episcopal Church. Jack Iker had been the Bishop of Fort Worth in the Episcopal Church until a super-majority of the diocese voted to dissolve its union with the General Convention at the 2007 and 2008 diocesan conventions. Those members of the diocese who wished to remain in the Episcopal Church met in a special convention on February 7, 2009. Edwin F. Gulick Jr., the Bishop of Kentucky who was planning to retire soon, was appointed as Provisional Bishop. In November 2009, the Annual Convention of that diocese elected Ohl as their new provisional bishop.
Charles Wallis Ohl Jr. was born in Bay City, Texas in 1943. His parents, a doctor and a nurse, raised him in Chickasha, Oklahoma, where he lived until graduating from High School in 1961. He then attended the University of the South, where he received a BA in English literature in 1965. For the next six years he worked as in consumer finance. During that time he also spent two years serving in the US Marine Corps, completing his active duty as a corporal (E-4). In 1971, he moved to Nashotah, Wisconsin with his wife, Sheila, to begin seminary at Nashotah House in preparation for becoming an Episcopal priest. He was ordained deacon in December 1973 and priest in June 1974, both by Bishop Chilton Robert Powell, then Bishop of Oklahoma.
During his time as a priest, Ohl served several parishes, first in Oklahoma and then in Colorado. He began his ordained ministry at St. Paul's Cathedral in Oklahoma City before becoming the vicar of St. Michael's, a new mission the diocese had planted in Norman, Oklahoma. After four years leading the parish as a mission, it was admitted to the diocese as a full parish. He continued to serve the parish until 1991 when St. Michael the Archangel in Colorado Springs, Colorado called him to be their next rector.
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