Matthew Heyd

Heyd was ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in 2009 by the Right Rev. Mark Sisk, Bishop of New York, and served at Trinity Church on Wall Street, Manhattan, until being called as rector of the Church of the Heavenly Rest on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 2013.^[3][8]

On 3 December 2022, at a special election convention of the Diocese of New York at the Cathedral of St John the Divine, Heyd was declared bishop co-adjutor after four rounds of voting. He was consecrated as bishop co-adjutor on 20 May 2023,^[9] and was installed as the 17th Bishop of New York on 10 February 2024.^[4][5][10] He was the second rector of the Church of the Heavenly Rest to become Bishop of New York, after the Rev. Herbert Shipman who served as bishop from 1921 to 1930. His co-consecrators were Michael B. Curry, Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, Andrew Dietsche, Allen K. Shin, Catherine S. Roskam, Mark S. Sisk, and Mary D. Glasspool.

Heyd is a board member of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing in Atlanta, Georgia, Bard College and Episcopal Divinity School.^[5][11]

In 2026, Heyd refused to comment on the relationship between Bard College President Leon Botstein and financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.^[12]

Heyd is married to Ann Thornton, vice-provost and librarian at Columbia University in New York City.^[1] They have one daughter and one son.^[3]