Following his seminary education, Thompson was ordained first a deacon and then a priest by Bishop Don E. Johnson in the Diocese of West Tennessee of the Episcopal Church.
The diocesan motto, Ubique Inter Flumina, means "everywhere between the rivers", referring to the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers, which bracket West Tennessee on two sides.
West Germany | West Bengal | Tennessee | Nashville, Tennessee | West Virginia | Memphis, Tennessee | West Indies | West End | West Yorkshire | Kanye West | West End theatre | The West Wing | West | West Midlands | West Bank | West Point | West Side Story | West Java | West Africa | Tennessee Williams | diocese | West Berlin | Knoxville, Tennessee | West Sussex | Tennessee Titans | Chattanooga, Tennessee | University of Tennessee | Key West | Mae West | West Coast |