Daniel William Herzog (July 9, 1941 – August 4, 2023) was an American Anglican bishop. He served in the Diocese of Albany from 1998 to 2007.Episcopal Diocese of Albany website history page . Retrieved January 12, 2009. After his retirement, he became a Roman Catholic, but returned to the Episcopal Church three years later. He left it once again to join the Anglican Church in North America in 2021.
Biography Daniel William HerzogEpiscopal Clerical Directory online . Retrieved November 3, 2014. was born in Ogdensburg, New York,"Clergy Applaud New Episcopal Bishop" , The Evangelist. on July 9, 1941.Episcopal Clerical Directory 2013 (2013). New York: Church Publishing Inc. , p. 430. He was raised in the Roman Catholic Church."Daniel W. Herzog", National Catholic Reporter 43 (April 20, 2007): 4. In 1964 he graduated from St. Bonaventure University."Former Bishop Opts for Rome". Accessed April 14, 2008. He married and had five children. He and his wife joined the Episcopal Church in the late 1960s. Herzog studied at Nashotah House, graduating in 1970, and was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church. In 1971 he received a master's degree in education from St. Lawrence University.
Herzog served as director of personnel at the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center in Ogdensburg while serving as assistant rector of an Episcopal parish there. He later served as Rector of Christ Church, Schenectady.
In 1997 he was elected coadjutor bishop of Albany; he was elected on the first ballot. The following year he succeeded as 8th Bishop of Albany when Bishop David Standish Ball retired. In 2003 he issued a pastoral letter opposing the election of Gene Robinson, a gay man, as Bishop of New Hampshire, and opposing the blessing of sexual relationships outside marriage.americananglican.org website . Retrieved January 12, 2009.
Retirement, departure to Rome, and return Herzog retired as Bishop of Albany on January 31, 2007. He was succeeded by Bishop William Love, who had been elected coadjutor bishop on March 25, 2006."The Very Reverend William H. Love Consecrated Bishop Coadjutor of Albany" .
In March 2007, Herzog and his wife Carol joined the Roman Catholic Church. Times Union story of March 30, 2007. In archives as of January 12, 2008. He was the third bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States to become a Roman Catholic, the others being Levi Silliman Ives in 1852 and Frederick Joseph Kinsman in 1919.Several other Episcopalian bishops have subsequently joined the Catholic Church, including John Bailey Lipscomb, 4th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida, and Jeffrey N. Steenson, 8th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande. Herzog explained his decision in a letter sent to his successor Bishop Love on March 19, 2007."Bishop Herzog Writes Letter of Resignation to Bishop Love" Herzog's predecessor in Albany, Bishop Ball, expressed concern at Herzog's departure. His successor, Bishop Love, stated that Herzog and his wife would continue to be welcome at diocesan events.Statement of Bishop Love on Conversion of Bishop Herzog
In April 2010, presiding bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori promulgated his restoration to the ordained ministry of the Episcopal Church. His return to ECUSA was page one news.Scott Waldman, "Ex-Episcopal bishop returns to flock," Times-Union, May 3, 2010, p. 1. Abstract found at Kendall Harmon blog and copy found at anglicansunited.com. Both accessed August 5, 2010.
In March 2021 Herzog announced that he would be resigning from ministry in the Episcopal church due to unspecified disagreements with the direction the church was headed. At the time of his statement, Herzog was serving as priest-in-charge of St. Augustine Episcopal Church in Ilion, New York, a position Herzog said that he would stay in until Easter of 2021. On April 3, 2021, former Albany Bishop William Love announced that he would be joining Anglican Diocese of the Living Word, a diocese within the Anglican Church of North America, as an Assistant Bishop. A week later on April 10, 2021, Herzog also announced that he would be joining the Anglican Church of North America and would be serving in ministry in the Anglican Diocese of the Living Word.
In retirement, Herzog pastored an ACNA church plant in the Utica area.
He died of neurosarcoidosis on August 4, 2023, at the age of 82.
See also
List of Episcopal bishops (U.S.)
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