Charles Edward Jenkins III (July 27, 1951 – April 9, 2021) was the 10th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana.
Career
Jenkins was born July 27, 1951, in Shreveport, Louisiana. He graduated from Louisiana Tech University in 1973 and was ordained by James B. Brown, whom he would succeed, in 1977 having gone to seminary at Nashotah House. After serving briefly as an assistant chaplain at Louisiana State University he served in parishes in Louisiana and Texas. His own new house, which he had slept in only four times, was destroyed by the flooding. Together with Episcopal Relief and Development he formed the diocesan Office of Disaster Response in order to coordinate the church's charitable response to the disaster as well as working with interfaith agencies. On the other hand, he was seen as opposing division of the church at the 2007 meeting of the House of Bishops at Camp Allen in Texas and was reported to be involved in the initial stages of formulating the bishops' statement from that meeting.
Jenkins was a nominee for presiding bishop in 2006, He died on April 9, 2021, in St. Francisville, Louisiana from pancreatic cancer.