The Right Reverend Orris G. Walker became the VIIth Bishop of Long Island, New York on January 1st, 1991.

Bishop Walker was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1942. He received his early education in Baltimore Public Schools, graduating from Baltimore City College, 1960. In 1964 he graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in Political Science and Philosophy, and in 1968 he received a S.T.B. from the General Theological Seminary. In 1980 he received a Doctor of Ministry degree from Drew University and in 1984 a Master of Art in Religious Studies from the University of Windsor. Honorary doctorates in Canon Law and Divinity were conferred by the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and the General Theological Seminary, respectively, in the fall of 1988. In 1993 the Bishop received an M.B.A. in Church Administration from the Graduate Theological Foundation.

Bishop Walker serves as chair of the Board of two hospitals and three nursing homes. The Diocese of Long Island, one of the largest of the Episcopal Church, comprises the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens and the counties of Nassau and Suffolk.

The Bishop is married to former Norma Eloy McKinney. They have two adult children and one grandson.