James Ottley

James Hamilton "Jim" Ottley is an Anglican bishop in The Episcopal Church.

Ottley received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Caribbean, in Puerto Rico, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1964. He returned to Panama as a priest and on January 21, 1984 was consecrated bishop and was the fifth bishop of Panama until 1995. He served simultaneously as bishop of the Anglican Diocese of El Salvador from 1985-1992. At the time Ottley was bishop, Panama was a diocese in Province 9 of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Panama is now part of the Anglican Church in Central America. He was subsequently appointed Anglican Observer at the United Nations by the Anglican Consultative Council and the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 2000, he became interim bishop of the Diocese of Honduras, serving until the consecration of Lloyd Allen.^[1][2]

Until the end of May 2007, Ottley was the assistant bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida, In June of that year he became the assistant bishop of Long Island.^[3]

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