Francis "Frank" Raymond Lyons III was born on 1954 and is an American-born Anglican bishop who has been a missionary in South America.
10 Facts About Frank Lyons
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Frank Lyons attended Wheaton College for both bachelor's and master's degrees.
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Frank Lyons attended seminary at Nashotah House, and after graduation unsuccessfully sought ordination in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
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Why Frank Lyons' pursuit of ordination there was refused is a matter of controversy.
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Frank Lyons was ordained in 1980 in the Episcopal Church's extraprovincial jurisdiction in Ecuador, where he and his wife served as missionaries.
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In 2001, Frank Lyons was elected bishop of the Diocese of Bolivia, one of seven dioceses in the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America.
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Frank 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.
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Frank Lyons supported Robert Duncan in his dual roles as diocesan bishop of Pittsburgh and archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America.
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Frank Lyons had a special assignment to oversee parishes outside of the Pittsburgh region.
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In January 2015, Frank Lyons became assisting bishop in the Anglican Diocese of the South.