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Ryan Reed (bishop)
Ryan Spencer Reed SSC (born 1967) is an American Anglican bishop. Since 2020, he has been the fourth diocesan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth in the Anglican Church in North America.
Reed was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1967. He has said that his birth mother was an unwed teenager who gave him up for adoption, an experience that he has said informs his pro-life views. Reed was raised and confirmed in the Episcopal Church and knew as a child that he wanted to become a priest. He was raised in Texas and attended Texas A&M University, where he was in the TAMU Corps of Cadets. He graduated in 1990, after which he became youth minister at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Fort Worth.
Reed married Kathy Marie Warren in 1991 at St. Andrew's; they have one adult daughter. From 1993 to 1996, he studied for his M.Div. at Trinity School for Ministry.
Reed returned to Fort Worth and was ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Jack Iker in 1996 and to the priesthood in 1997. He served his curacy at St. Vincent's Cathedral, and then as vicar of Ascension and St. Mark in Bridgeport from 1998 to 2002. In 2002, Reed returned to St. Vincent's as dean, overseeing the cathedral and its now-defunct affiliated school. During his time as dean, the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth disaffiliated from the Episcopal Church. St. Vincent's was the location for the inaugural provincial assembly of the Anglican Church in North America.
Reed is from the Anglo-Catholic tradition within Anglicanism and has been a member of the Society of the Holy Cross since 1999. He became a Forward in Faith North America council member in 2008. In addition to his parish work, Reed was twice for a combined 11 years the standing committee president in the Diocese of Fort Worth and served on the ACNA's executive committee.
On June 1, 2019, Reed was elected bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of Fort Worth. He was consecrated on September 21, 2019, by Archbishop Foley Beach. Iker retired at the end of 2019, and Reed was enthroned at St. Vincent's on January 5, 2020.
In 2021, under Reed's leadership, a group of churches in the Diocese of Fort Worth and the Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others began exploring the creation of a ACNA missionary district and proto-diocese in the Dallas area, which to begin would be a deanery of the Diocese of Fort Worth.
After two women were consecrated as bishops in GAFCON member province the Anglican Church of Kenya, Reed and the diocese's standing committee issued a statement in 2021 recognizing "that the ordination of women has been a contentious and divisive issue" and "urg[ing] our brethren and spiritual fathers to move away from divisiveness, not toward it. Citing the ACNA's constitutional moratorium on women bishops, "This standing committee, together with our bishop, believes that the same principle of restraint should be applied locally as well as in the global church."
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Ryan Reed (bishop)
Ryan Spencer Reed SSC (born 1967) is an American Anglican bishop. Since 2020, he has been the fourth diocesan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth in the Anglican Church in North America.
Reed was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1967. He has said that his birth mother was an unwed teenager who gave him up for adoption, an experience that he has said informs his pro-life views. Reed was raised and confirmed in the Episcopal Church and knew as a child that he wanted to become a priest. He was raised in Texas and attended Texas A&M University, where he was in the TAMU Corps of Cadets. He graduated in 1990, after which he became youth minister at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Fort Worth.
Reed married Kathy Marie Warren in 1991 at St. Andrew's; they have one adult daughter. From 1993 to 1996, he studied for his M.Div. at Trinity School for Ministry.
Reed returned to Fort Worth and was ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Jack Iker in 1996 and to the priesthood in 1997. He served his curacy at St. Vincent's Cathedral, and then as vicar of Ascension and St. Mark in Bridgeport from 1998 to 2002. In 2002, Reed returned to St. Vincent's as dean, overseeing the cathedral and its now-defunct affiliated school. During his time as dean, the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth disaffiliated from the Episcopal Church. St. Vincent's was the location for the inaugural provincial assembly of the Anglican Church in North America.
Reed is from the Anglo-Catholic tradition within Anglicanism and has been a member of the Society of the Holy Cross since 1999. He became a Forward in Faith North America council member in 2008. In addition to his parish work, Reed was twice for a combined 11 years the standing committee president in the Diocese of Fort Worth and served on the ACNA's executive committee.
On June 1, 2019, Reed was elected bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of Fort Worth. He was consecrated on September 21, 2019, by Archbishop Foley Beach. Iker retired at the end of 2019, and Reed was enthroned at St. Vincent's on January 5, 2020.
In 2021, under Reed's leadership, a group of churches in the Diocese of Fort Worth and the Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others began exploring the creation of a ACNA missionary district and proto-diocese in the Dallas area, which to begin would be a deanery of the Diocese of Fort Worth.
After two women were consecrated as bishops in GAFCON member province the Anglican Church of Kenya, Reed and the diocese's standing committee issued a statement in 2021 recognizing "that the ordination of women has been a contentious and divisive issue" and "urg[ing] our brethren and spiritual fathers to move away from divisiveness, not toward it. Citing the ACNA's constitutional moratorium on women bishops, "This standing committee, together with our bishop, believes that the same principle of restraint should be applied locally as well as in the global church."
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