Matthew Heyd

The Rt. Rev. Matthew Foster Heyd is an American prelate who has served as the 17th Bishop of New York since 2024. He was consecrated as bishop co-adjutor in 2023,  having previously served for 10 years as rector of the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York City.

Education
After graduating from Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina, Heyd studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead scholar. He later studied at Yale University and the General Theological Seminary, receiving Master's degrees in arts and religion in 1995 and sacred theology in 2009.

Career
Heyd was ordained in 2009 by the Rt. 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.

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, and was installed as the 17th Bishop of New York on 10 February 2024.

Heyd is a board member of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing and of Episcopal Divinity School.

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