John H. Smith (bishop)

John Henry Smith (September 11, 1939 – June 2, 2012) was the sixth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia.

[1] Born and raised in the Panama Canal Zone, Smith graduated from Balboa High School and later Cornell University.

Smith had been serving for a decade in Vermont, in Middlebury and at Trinity Episcopal Church in Rutland.

In 1996, Smith wrote Cluster Ministry: A faithful response, a fourth edition of which the Diocese of West Virginia published in 2000.

From 2006 to 2010, Smith served as priest-in-charge at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Bridgton, Maine, which he helped build.