David C. Rice is an American Anglican bishop and former Methodist minister.
From 2008 to 2014, he was the 15th Bishop of Waiapu in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia.
Initially a Methodist minister, he was received into the Anglican Church in 1998 and served at Mt Herbert parish before his appointment to the deanery.
Rice resigned his New Zealand bishopric in 2014 to stand for election as provisional bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin in California.
[6] On March 4, 2017, he was elected as diocesan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin, having been the only nominee.