Granville Porter Taylor[1] (born September 17, 1950) is the sixth and immediate past Episcopal Bishop of Western North Carolina.

[4] He was ordained a priest on April 13, 1994,[1] and served seven years as rector of St. Gregory the Great Church in Athens, Georgia.

[5] He and his wife, Jo Abbott Taylor (a research nurse), married in 1972; they have two children, Arthur and Marie.

Arthur achieved his graduate degree (Ph.D.) in psychology at New York University, and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and two children.

[4] In 2016, Taylor was named the Visiting Professor of Episcopal Studies at Wake Forest University's School of Divinity.