David Lloyd Moyer is a former American

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. He was a priest of the Episcopal Church before becoming a bishop of the

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, a 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

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, the North American 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.

Early life and education

Moyer holds degrees from Whittier College (B.A.),

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(M. Div.),

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(S.T.M.), and

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(D.Min).

Anglican ministry

Moyer was

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to the

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and priesthood in 1976. After serving parishes in the Dioceses of New York, Albany, and Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, he became rector of the

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in 1989, a post he held until 2011. After a public feud with Bishop Charles Bennison, Moyer was deposed by Bennison and charged with having left the Episcopal Church. He was accepted into the Diocese of Pittsburgh by Bishop Robert Duncan, but later transferred to the Diocese of the Upper Shire, under the authority of the Archbishop of Central Africa,

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. 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 (TAC), a Continuing Anglicanism body, on February 16, 2005. He served as the Bishop of the Armed Forces for the

. He was also the episcopal visitor for the TAC in

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and the

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of the 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

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. 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'' In 2014, he was received into the

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as a

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Personal life

Moyer is married to Rita Moyer (née Hawkins). They are the parents of three grown children and have five grandchildren

References

External links

St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

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Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moyer, David Living people American Anglo-Catholics Anglo-Catholic bishops American Continuing Anglican bishops Whittier College alumni American Roman Catholics Anglican bishop converts to Roman Catholicism Year of birth missing (living people)