Benedict Churchill (born April 19, 1947) is the bishop of the Orthodox Church in America Diocese of New England since 2023.
[1] Benedict was born as William Churchill on April 19, 1947, the eldest of six in an Irish Roman Catholic household in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
[1] He was baptized in St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Locust Gap, Pennsylvania.
He briefly became a benedictine monk while studying Byzantine and medieval history at St. John's University of Minnesota in 1969, where he received a Bachelors of Arts.
He also obtained a licentiate of Mediaeval Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto in 1975, a Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in 1979, and a Masters in Divination from St Vladimir's Seminary in Yonkers, New York in 2010.