Wayne Kenton Clymer

Background

Wayne was born in Napoleon, Ohio, the son of the Review George A. and Grace Sallie Hulvey Clymer. His father was a member of the Ohio Annual Conference of the Evangelical Church, having served several churches in that State.

Education

Wayne earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Asbury College (1939), and the Master of Arts, degree in Philosophy from Columbia University. Union Theological Seminary, New York City conferred upon him the Bachelor of Divinity degree, and he earned his Doctor of Philosophy from New York University. He pursued post-doctoral studies at the New York School for Social Research, the William Alanson White School of Psychiatry, and Columbia University.

Clinical Pastoral was taken at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and at Saint Luke"s Hospital in New York City.

Career

Review Clymer served pastorates in Ozone Park, New York and Forest Hills, New New York In 1946 Doctor Clymer was appointed Professor of Pastoral Care at the Evangelical Theological Seminary, Naperville, Illinois. In 1957 he was appointed Dean of the Seminary.

In 1967 he became President.

He also taught at Saint Andrew"s Theological Seminary in Manila and Trinity College in Singapore. During his tenure in theological education, Doctor Clymer served as President of the Association of Seminary Professors, the Chicago Theological Faculties Union, and the Mid-America Theological Center.

Doctor Clymer was elected to the Episcopacy in 1972 by the North Central Jurisdictional Conference of the U.M. Church. He was assigned to the Minnesota Episcopal Area, where he served two quadrennia.

In 1980 he was assigned to the Iowa Area, where he served one quadrennium.

As a Bishop he served as the President of The United Methodist Committee on Relief, 1976-1984. Upon his retirement in 1984, Bishop Clymer served as Liaison for the Council of Bishops to the theological seminaries.

Achievements

• Bishop Clymer gave the Denman Lectures at the Congress on Evangelism (1976). The Berger Lectures at the University of Dubuque (1985). The Washburn Lectures (1985). And the George Buttrick Lectures, Bayview, Michigan (1990). He was Preacher on the National Broadcasting Company radio series, "Art of Living" (1962). And Preacher on "The Protestant Hour" (1970). Four times he was a delegate to the Oxford Conference on Methodist Theological Studies, and represented his denomination at the Fourth World Conference on Faith and Order. Honorary degrees have been conferred upon him by Westmar College, Hamline University, Iowa Wesleyan College, Rust College, and Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.

Works

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  • Membership means discipleship

Membership

Wayne was ordained Deacon and Elder by Bishop John South. Stamm, becoming a member of the Atlantic Conference of the Evangelical Church. He was a member of the United States. delegation to the United Nations Conference on Refugees in Geneva, Switzerland in 1970.

Connections

Father:

George Arnold Clymer

Mother:

Sallie Grace (Hulvey) Clymer

Spouse:

Virginia R. Schoenbohm

Spouse:

Helen Eloise Graves

child:

Kenton James Clymer

child:

Richard George Clymer