William Edwin Swing (born 26 August 1936) is a retired bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
[4] He is the Founder and President of the United Religions Initiative (URI), an international NGO working to promote interfaith cooperation.
He served for over two decades on the board of the American Foundation for AIDS Research and was active in San Francisco on a daily basis with alcohol and drug rehabilitation, Latino immigrant ministries, and care for the elderly and homeless.
[6] In 1996 he traveled to China, Japan, South Korea, India, the Middle East, and Europe seeking guidance and commitment from leaders of many of the world’s religions, including the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, the Shankaracharya of Kanchipuram, Islam’s Grand Mufti of Egypt, and the Archbishop of Canterbury.
A Bishop's Quest (2015), Xoxox Press A Swing with a Crosier (1999), Episcopal Diocese of California The Coming United Religions (1998), CoNexus Press Building Wisdom’s House (1997), Addison Wesley Longman, co-authored with Rabbi Stephen Pearce, John Schlegel, S.J., and Bonnie Menes, KahnPublisher