Everett Holland Jones

Everett Holland Jones (June 9, 1902 – November 18, 1995) was the fourth bishop of West Texas in The Episcopal Church.

He was educated at the state High School in San Antonio and then attended the University of Texas from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1922.

He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity in 1943 by the University of the South and another from the Virginia Theological Seminary.

[1] Jones was ordained deacon in June 1926 in St Mark's Church, and then priest in July 1927 through the hands of Bishop William Theodotus Capers of West Texas.

[5][6] During his episcopacy, he founded Cathedral House, later renamed the Bishop Jones Center, as the diocesan headquarters.