Bishops
On August 28, 2010, a special convention in the diocese elected the Rt. Rev. Edwin M. Leidel, Jr. to be the Bishop Provisional. The diocese had been without a bishop since April 2008.
On May 1, 2012 the Diocesan Bishop Search Committee announced it was accepting applications for the sixth Bishop of the Diocese of Eau Claire.
On November 10, 2012 the Reverend William Jay Lambert III was elected as the next Bishop of The Episcopal Diocese of Eau Claire.
Bishops who served the Diocese of Wisconsin:
- Jackson Kemper (1847-70)
- William Edmond Armitage (1870-73)
- Edward Randolph Welles (1874-88)
Bishops who served the Diocese of Milwaukee, prior to creation of the Diocese of Eau Claire:
- Cyrus Frederick Knight 1889-91
- Isaac Lea Nicholson 1891-1906
- William Walter Webb 1906-33
Bishops who served the Diocese of Eau Claire:
- Frank Elmer Wilson, First Bishop of Eau Claire, 1929-1944
- William Wallace Horstick, Second Bishop of Eau Claire, June 29, 1944 - Resigned Dec 31, 1969
- Stanley Hamilton Atkins, Third Bishop of Eau Claire, 1970-1980
- William C. Wantland, Fourth Bishop of Eau Claire, 1980-1999
- Keith B. Whitmore, Fifth Bishop of Eau Claire, 1999-2008
- Edwin M. Leidel, Jr., Bishop Provisional of Eau Claire, 2010-2012
- William Jay Lambert III, Sixth Bishop-elect (November 10, 2012)
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