Franklin, R. W., 1947- (Personal Name)

Nineteenth-century churches : the history of a new Catholicism in Württemberg, England, and France, 1987: CIP title page (R.W. Franklin, Saint John's University, Minnesota) data sheet (born January 3, 1947) publisher's info. (associate professor of history and Director of the Christian Humanism Project at Saint John's University)

OCLC database, Oct. 15, 2001 (hdgs.: Franklin, R. W., 1947- ; Franklin, R. William ; usage: R.W. Franklin, R. William Franklin, Ralph William Franklin)

Wikipedia, viewed August 26, 2019 (Ralph William Franklin; commonly known as R. William Franklin; born January 3, 1947, in Brookhaven, Mississippi; Ph. D. in church history from Harvard University; taught at General Theological Seminary and at St John's University in Minnesota; he was the eleventh Bishop of Western New York in the Episcopal Church)

Episcopal Diocese of Western New York website, viewed August 26, 2019: link to About Us page (under History: the Rt. Rev. R. William Franklin was Bishop of Western New York from 2011 to 2019)