Frank Lyons
| The Right Reverend Frank Lyons |
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| Assistant Bishop | |
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| Church | Anglican Church in North America |
| Diocese | Anglican Diocese of the South |
| Other posts | Anglican Bishop of Bolivia |
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| Ordination | 1980 |
| Consecration | 2001 |
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| Born | 1954 |
Francis R. Lyons (born 1954) is an American-born Anglican bishop who has been a missionary in South America. From 2001 to 2012, he was bishop of Bolivia. In 2012, he was appointed assistant bishop in the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh. In January 2015, he became assisting bishop in the Anglican Diocese of the South.
Lyons was born in Maryland raised in an Episcopal parish near Potomac, Maryland. At 17, he discerned a calling to serve as a bishop, based on 1 Timothy 3:1.
Lyons attended Wheaton College for both bachelor's and master's degrees. It was there that he met his future wife, Shawnee. He attended seminary at Nashotah House, and after graduation unsuccessfully sought ordination in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. Why Lyons' pursuit of ordination there was refused is a matter of controversy. Lyons was ordained in 1980 in the Episcopal Church's extraprovincial jurisdiction in Ecuador, where he and his wife served as missionaries. They later served at churches in California, and then from 1993 to 2001 in Honduras. The Lyonses were supported by the Society of Anglican Missionaries and Senders.
In 2001, Lyons was elected bishop of the Diocese of Bolivia, one of seven dioceses in the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America. The diocese was very small; at the time of his election, it included only four parishes. By 2012, that number had grown to eight.
Lyons became known in the United States for providing oversight to theologically conservative Episcopal parishes who wished to break away from the Episcopal Church after its consecration of Gene Robinson as a bishop in 2003. By 2007, he oversaw as many as 40 parishes and was an active participant in the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone's role in the Anglican realignment. These U.S. parishes were known as the "Northern Deanery" of the Diocese of Bolivia.
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