Jacob Wayne Owensby (born October 1957) is the fourth and current bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Louisiana.
Owensby undertook studies at Emory University from where he graduated with bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in philosophy.
After studies at Sewanee: The University of the South, he was ordained to the diaconate on June 8, 1997 and to the priesthood on December 7, 1997.
He was consecrated on July 21, 2012 in St Mark's Cathedral by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.
[2][3] In January 2023, Owensby was selected as the 26th chancellor of the University of the South, the Episcopal college in Sewanee, Tennessee.