Mark Dyer

James Michael Mark Dyer (June 7, 1930 – November 11, 2014) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem from 1982 to 1995.

He was a Roman Catholic Benedictine monk at Saint Anselm Abbey in Goffstown, New Hampshire, from 1960 to 1969. He was received as a priest in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America on June 15, 1971. He was consecrated Bishop of Bethlehem in 1982. Following retirement, Dyer served as professor of theology and director of spiritual formation at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. He died in Alexandria of multiple myeloma in 2014.^[1][2]

Bibliography

• "Prayer and the Priesthood", Bulletin of the General Theological Seminary of New York, Vol. LX, Number 3 (June, 1974).
• "Principles of Spiritual Direction", Office of Pastoral Development (private printing, April, 1974).
• "Some Religious Aspects of Support Systems", in Supporting Systems and Mutual Help: Multidisciplinary Explorations, ed. By Gerald Caplan, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, New York: Grime and Stratton, Inc., 1976.
• "Going Forth, Reflections on the Christian Life, Bible Reading Fellowship", Winter Park, Florida, Volume 12, Number 3, 1983.
• "Theological Reflection on the Patristic Development of Episcopal Ministry" in On Being a Bishop, ed. J. Robert Wright, Church Hymnal Corporation, New York, 1992.
• "Revelation – Covenant-Torah", House of Bishops Publication ECUSA, 1993.
• "Your Spirituality Matters", Episcopal Life (monthly column), 1993.
• Doing Theology in a Covenant Community, Forward Movement, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994.
• "The Historic Episcopate in the Context of Apostolic Succession" in Discovering Common Mission, ed. R.B. Slocum, Don Armentrout. CPI, New York, 2003.

References

1. Virginia Theological Seminary Remembers Bishop Mark Dyer, Virginia Theological Seminary, Retrieved 11-12-2014.
2. "Mark Dyer, Episcopal bishop and theology professor, dies at 84". Washington Post. Retrieved 10 April 2015.

External links

• Online CV
• From Bishop Mark Dyer: Statement on Windsor Report
• Obituary from The Living Church
• Grace and Equanimity, by Sean Rowe, from The Living Church