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{{short description|American Anglican bishop (born 1967)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2022}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
| type        = Bishop
| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Reverend]]
| name        = Ryan Reed
| honorific_suffix = [[Society of the Holy Cross|SSC]]
| title       = Bishop of Fort Worth
| image       = Bishop Ryan Reed.png
| alt         = 
| caption     = Reed interviewed in a 2005 [[Anglican Communion Network]] documentary.
| church      = [[Anglican Church in North America]]
| archdiocese = 
| diocese     = [[Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth|Fort Worth]]
| see         = 
| predecessor = [[Jack Iker]]
| successor   = 
|term         = 2020–present

<!--   Orders   -->
| ordination     = 1996 (diaconate)<br/>1997 (priesthood)
| ordained_by    = [[Jack Iker]]
| consecration   = September 21, 2019
| consecrated_by = [[Foley Beach]] (chief consecrator), [[Keith Ackerman]], [[William C. Wantland|William Wantland]], Jack Iker (co-consecrators)
| rank           = 
<!--   Personal details   -->
| birth_name    = Ryan Spencer Reed
| birth_date    = {{birth year and age|1967}}
| birth_place   = [[Omaha, Nebraska]]
| death_date    = 
| death_place   = 
| previous_post = Dean, [[St. Vincent's Cathedral]]
| alma_mater    = {{unbulleted list | [[Texas A&M University]] | [[Trinity School for Ministry]]}}
}}

'''Ryan Spencer Reed''' {{post-nominals|post-noms=[[Society of the Holy Cross|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]].

==Early life and education==

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 [[Anti-abortion movements|pro-life views]].<ref name="reed-bishop-packet">{{cite web |last1=Reed |first1=Ryan |title=Responses from the Nominees for Bishop Coadjutor |url=http://fwepiscopal.org/bishop/deanreedpacket.pdf |website=Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth |access-date=November 11, 2022}}</ref> Reed was raised and confirmed in the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|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 [[Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets|TAMU Corps of Cadets]].<ref name="reed-consecration">{{cite web |title=Ryan Reed consecrated Bishop Coadjutor |url=http://www.fwepiscopal.org/bishop/CoadjutorConsecrated.pdf |website=Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth |access-date=November 11, 2022}}</ref> He graduated in 1990, after which he became [[Youth ministry|youth minister]] at [[St. Andrew's Anglican Church (Fort Worth, Texas)|St. Andrew's Episcopal Church]] in [[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]].<ref name="reed-bishop-packet" />

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]].<ref name="reed-bishop-packet" />

==Ordained 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 [[St. Vincent's Cathedral School|now-defunct affiliated school]].<ref name="reed-bishop-packet" /> During his time as dean, the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth disaffiliated from the Episcopal Church.<ref name="texas-scotus-cp">{{cite news |last1=Gryboski |first1=Michael |title=Supreme Court declines $100M Episcopal Church property case, lets breakaway diocese's victory stand |url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/supreme-court-declines-breakaway-episcopal-diocese-property-case.html |access-date=November 12, 2022 |work=Christian Post |date=February 22, 2021}}</ref> St. Vincent's was the location for the inaugural provincial assembly of the [[Anglican Church in North America]].<ref name=AssemblyBegins>{{cite web|url= http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/6874610738.html|title=Anglican Church Assembly Begins|author=Christian Newswire|date=June 22, 2009|access-date=August 25, 2009}}</ref>

Reed is from the [[Anglo-Catholic]] tradition within Anglicanism and has been a member of the [[Society of the Holy Cross]] since 1999.<ref name="reed-elected">{{cite news |title=Election of a Bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth |url=https://anglican.ink/2019/06/01/election-of-a-bishop-in-the-episcopal-diocese-of-fort-worth/ |access-date=November 12, 2022 |work=Anglican Ink |date=June 1, 2019}}</ref> He became a [[Forward in Faith|Forward in Faith North America]] council member in 2008.<ref name="reed-bishop-packet" /> 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.<ref name="reed-elected" />

==Episcopacy==
On June 1, 2019, Reed was elected [[Coadjutor bishop|bishop coadjutor]] of the Diocese of Fort Worth.<ref name="reed-elected" /> He was consecrated on September 21, 2019, by Archbishop Foley Beach.<ref name="reed-consecration" /> Iker retired at the end of 2019, and Reed was enthroned at St. Vincent's on January 5, 2020.<ref name="tlc-iker-retire">{{cite news |last1=Petersen |first1=Kirk |title=Jack Iker, a Founding Bishop of ACNA, Retires in Fort Worth |url=https://livingchurch.org/2020/01/02/jack-iker-a-founding-bishop-of-acna-retires-in-fort-worth/ |access-date=November 12, 2022 |work=The Living Church |date=January 2, 2020}}</ref>

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.<ref name="missionary-district">{{cite web |title=Concerning a proposed Missionary District of Dallas |url=http://www.fwepiscopal.org/news/missionarydistrict.pdf |website=Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth |access-date=November 12, 2022}}</ref>

After two women were [[Ordination of women in the Anglican Communion|consecrated as bishops]] in [[Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans|GAFCON]] member province the [[Anglican Church of Kenya]],<ref name="gafcon-women-bishops">{{cite news |last1=Conger |first1=George |title=Third woman bishop for GAFCON consecrated |url=https://anglican.ink/2021/09/12/third-woman-bishop-for-gafcon-consecrated/ |access-date=November 12, 2022 |work=Anglican Ink |date=September 12, 2021}}</ref> 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."<ref name="edfw-women-bishops">{{cite web |title=Resolution of the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth |url=https://mcusercontent.com/1fb9f2edeac2579af848e190a/files/0e06b295-637f-4189-b2ab-e643996a0872/Fort_Worth_Standing_Committee_21_Sept_2021_Final.01.pdf |website=Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth |access-date=November 12, 2022}}</ref>

===Conclusion of litigation===

Reed's early episcopacy was dominated by the resolution of the long-running litigation between the Diocese of Fort Worth and the Episcopal Church. In May 2020, the [[Supreme Court of Texas|Texas Supreme Court]] overturned an appellate court decision awarding the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth's property, valued at over $100&nbsp;million, to the Episcopal Church-affiliated diocese.<ref name="texas-scotus-cp" /> The court ruled that resolving the property dispute did not require ecclesiastical questions but that "under the governing documents, the withdrawing faction is the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, and the trial court properly granted summary judgment in the withdrawing faction's favor".<ref>{{cite court |litigants=The Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth v. The Episcopal Church |reporter=Tex. |opinion=18-0438 |pinpoint=pg 2 |court=Supreme Court of Texas; |date=May 22, 2020 |url=https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1446580/180438.pdf#page=2 |postscript=none }}</ref> The court's ruling also affirmed the ACNA diocese as the owner of the diocesan name and seal, and the Episcopal diocese renamed itself the [[Episcopal Church in North Texas]].<ref name="ecntx-name">{{cite web |last1=Sherrod |first1=Katie |title=WHO WE ARE … AND WHO IS NOT US |url=https://edotn.org/who-we-are-and-who-is-not-us/ |website=Episcopal Diocese of Texas North Region |access-date=November 12, 2022}}</ref> Reed declared Pentecost Sunday 2020 to be a day of fasting and rededication in the Diocese of Fort Worth.<ref name="reed-response-2020">{{cite news |last1=Walton |first1=Jeffrey |title=Anglican Bishop Ryan Reed on Seeking the Gospel Amidst Litigation |url=https://juicyecumenism.com/2020/05/29/anglican-bishop-ryan-reed/ |access-date=November 12, 2022 |work=Juicy Ecumenism |date=May 29, 2020}}</ref>

In the fall of 2020, the Episcopal Church appealed to the [[U.S. Supreme Court]], which refused to hear the case in February 2021.<ref name="tlc-scotus-end-appeals">{{cite news |last1=Petersen |first1=Kirk |title=U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Ft. Worth Case |url=https://livingchurch.org/2021/02/22/u-s-supreme-court-declines-to-hear-ft-worth-case/ |access-date=November 12, 2022 |work=The Living Church |date=February 22, 2021}}</ref> In April 2021, the Diocese of Fort Worth received possession of six church properties previously occupied by the Episcopal Church in North Texas that had not settled with the diocese prior to the commencement of litigation by the Episcopal Church in 2008.<ref name="property-handover">{{cite news |last1=Griffey |first1=Eric |title=Six Episcopal congregations face eviction |url=https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2021/04/19/six-episcopal-congregations-lose-their-homes-today- |access-date=November 12, 2022 |work=Spectrum News 1 |date=April 19, 2021}}</ref> Some of the churches returned were stripped of personal property, down to the pews, altar fixtures, crucifixes, sheet music and kitchen appliances in some cases.<ref name="property-removed">{{cite news |last1=Walton |first1=Jeffrey |title=‘An Experience of Restoration’ in Fort Worth’s Episcopal Saga |url=https://juicyecumenism.com/2021/06/07/fort-worth-episcopal-property/ |access-date=November 12, 2022 |work=Juicy Ecumenism |date=June 7, 2021}}</ref> The Texas Supreme Court in September 2021 ordered all personal property returned to the ACNA diocese within seven days,<ref name="property-return-order">{{cite web |title=State Supreme Court rejects TEC loyalists’ bid to keep property |url=https://mcusercontent.com/1fb9f2edeac2579af848e190a/files/336f168a-619e-9761-a703-4342f5e8f56d/TXSC_092121.pdf |website=Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth |access-date=November 12, 2022}}</ref> although some legal proceedings continued.<ref name="all-saints-proceedings-bankruptcy">{{cite web |last1=Weaver |first1=R. David |title=Cause No. 141-252083-11; The Episcopal Church, et al v. Franklin Salazar, et al |url=https://mcusercontent.com/1fb9f2edeac2579af848e190a/files/bf688295-eb9b-9f0e-8eed-fb92f5674379/LetterToTheCourt_102021.pdf |access-date=November 12, 2022}}</ref> With the return of property, the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth began [[Church planting|replanting]] new congregations in the buildings, which Reed noted had been vacant for more than a year due to virtual worship during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref name="property-handover" />

That summer, the Episcopal Church paid $4.5&nbsp;million in legal fees to the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth in a mediated settlement.<ref name="legal-fees">{{cite news |last1=Walton |first1=Jeffrey |title=Episcopal legal expenses estimated at $52 million as Anglicans receive payout |url=https://anglican.ink/2021/09/01/episcopal-legal-expenses-estimated-at-52-million-as-anglicans-receive-payout/ |access-date=November 12, 2022 |work=Anglican Ink |date=September 1, 2021}}</ref> "The Diocese made every attempt to avoid this litigation, beginning before its dissociation from TEC in 2008," Reed said. "Unfortunately, negotiations ended abruptly after three church properties were released to TEC-majority congregations when the Presiding Bishop and local TEC leaders brought suit in April 2009, foreclosing on the possibility of any other settlement. As we put more than a decade of litigation behind us, we can once again devote ourselves to sharing the transforming love of Jesus Christ and our mission to equip the saints for the work of ministry. We look forward now in hope and trust for Christ’s leading."<ref name="mediation-comment-reed">{{cite web |title=Mediation resolves dispute over attorneys’ fees and costs |url=https://mcusercontent.com/1fb9f2edeac2579af848e190a/files/2a360f54-45b2-4081-77c7-d9a962267539/DioFW_Mediation_Aug28.pdf |website=Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth |access-date=November 12, 2022}}</ref> ACNA parishes that had been legally constrained by Episcopal Church objections from undertaking new construction were also free to resume these projects.<ref name="mediation-comment-reed" />

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