# David Moyer > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/David_Moyer > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/David_Moyer.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Moyer > Source revision: 1341538871 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) '''David Lloyd Moyer''' is a former American [bishop](/source/bishop). He was a priest of the [Episcopal Church](/source/Episcopal_Church_in_the_United_States) before becoming a bishop of the [Anglican Church in America](/source/Anglican_Church_in_America), a [Continuing Anglicanism](/source/Continuing_Anglicanism) body. After being deposed from the Episcopal Church and denied entry into the Roman Catholic Church as a cleric in 2012, he was received as a layman in 2014. His former congregation, then known as the Blessed John Henry Newman Catholic Community of Strafford, Pennsylvania, prepared to enter the [Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter](/source/Personal_Ordinariate_of_the_Chair_of_St._Peter), the North American [ordinariate](/source/Personal_ordinariate) for former Anglicans. The community later merged with a second local Anglican ordinariate group to form St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in [Bridgeport, Pennsylvania](/source/Bridgeport%2C_Pennsylvania). ==Early life and education== Moyer holds degrees from [Whittier College](/source/Whittier_College) (B.A.), [Seabury-Western Theological Seminary](/source/Seabury-Western_Theological_Seminary) (M. Div.), [New York Theological Seminary](/source/New_York_Theological_Seminary) (S.T.M.), and [Princeton Theological Seminary](/source/Princeton_Theological_Seminary) (D.Min). He also attended [Muhlenberg College](/source/Muhlenberg_College) as an undergraduate. ==Anglican ministry== Moyer was [ordained](/source/Holy_orders) to the [diaconate](/source/diaconate) and [priesthood](/source/priesthood) in 1976. After serving parishes in the [Dioceses of New York](/source/Episcopal_Diocese_of_New_York), [Albany](/source/Episcopal_Diocese_of_Albany), and [Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador](/source/Anglican_Diocese_of_Eastern_Newfoundland_and_Labrador), he became [rector](/source/Rector_(ecclesiastical)) of the [Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania)](/source/Church_of_the_Good_Shepherd_(Rosemont%2C_Pennsylvania)) in 1989, a post he held until 2011. As a priest, he was a member of the Anglo-Catholic [Society of the Holy Cross](/source/Society_of_the_Holy_Cross) (SSC). He was dean of the St. Lawrence Deanery in the Diocese of Albany from 1985 to 1989. He was president of the Philadelphia chapter of the [Catholic Clerical Union](/source/Catholic_Clerical_Union) from 1990 to 1997. Moyer received the [Episcopal Synod of America](/source/Forward_in_Faith) President's Award for Meritorious Service in 1995. After a public feud with Bishop [Charles Bennison](/source/Charles_Bennison), Moyer was deposed by Bennison and charged with having left the [Episcopal Church](/source/Episcopal_Church_(United_States)). He was accepted into the Diocese of Pittsburgh by [Bishop Robert Duncan](/source/Robert_Duncan_(bishop)), but later transferred to the [Diocese of Upper Shire](/source/Diocese_of_Upper_Shire), under the authority of the Archbishop of Central Africa, [Bernard Malango](/source/Bernard_Malango). Moyer remained as rector the Church of the Good Shepherd by choice of the congregation. He was consecrated a bishop in the [Traditional Anglican Communion](/source/Traditional_Anglican_Communion) (TAC), a [Continuing Anglicanism](/source/Continuing_Anglicanism) body, on February 16, 2005. He served as the [Bishop of the Armed Forces](/source/Military_ordinariate) for the [Anglican Church in America](/source/Anglican_Church_in_America). He was also the [episcopal visitor](/source/Provincial_episcopal_visitor) for the TAC in [England](/source/England) and the [American](/source/United_States) [commissary](/source/commissary) of the [Diocese of The Murray](/source/Diocese_of_The_Murray) in Australia. In 2011, after litigation, Moyer was ordered to leave the premises of Good Shepherd, Rosemont. At that time, a majority of the congregation left with him to form the group that is now part of the [Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter](/source/Personal_Ordinariate_of_the_Chair_of_Saint_Peter). In 2012, his petition to enter the Catholic Church as an ordained minister was accepted by the Vatican (The Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith, i.e. ''Nulla Osta'') but he did not receive local ecclesial approval, the ''Votum''{{Cite web|url=https://virtueonline.org/philadelphia-fr-moyer-denied-pathway-papal-driven-ordinariate|title = PHILADELPHIA: Fr. Moyer Denied Pathway to Papal-driven Ordinariate | VirtueOnline – the Voice for Global Orthodox Anglicanism}} In 2014, he was received into the [Roman Catholic Church](/source/Roman_Catholic_Church) as a [layman](/source/layman). ==Personal life== Moyer is married to Rita Moyer (née Hawkins). They are the parents of three grown children and have five grandchildren ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.sjbbridgeport.org/ St. John the Baptist Catholic Church] * [https://ordinariate.net/news/new-catholic-parish-in-philadelphia-area/ MEDIA RELEASE: New Catholic parish in Philadelphia area] * [https://ordinariate.net/ Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter] {{DEFAULTSORT:Moyer, David}} Category:Living people Category:1951 births Category:American Anglo-Catholics Category:Anglo-Catholic bishops Category:American Continuing Anglican bishops Category:Whittier College alumni Category:American Roman Catholics Category:Anglican bishop converts to Roman Catholicism Category:Year of birth missing (living people) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [David Moyer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Moyer) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Moyer?action=history)). 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