- Date Of Birth: September 24, 1917
- Date Of Death: November 25, 2013
- State: Michigan
Wayne Kenton Clymer, former United Methodist Bishop of the Minnesota Conference (1972-80) and Iowa (1980-84), died on November 25, 2013. The cause of death was a stroke suffered while Bishop Clymer was delivering a eulogy at Brooklyn Center United Methodist Church in Minneapolis.
Clymer was born in Napoleon, Ohio on September 24, 1917. He briefly attended Malone College in Cleveland before transferring to Asbury College in Wilmore, KY in 1939. At Asbury he met Helen E. Graves. Wayne and Helen were married in 1939 and moved to New York City, where Wayne attended Columbia University, receiving a Masters Degree in Philosophy in 1942. In 1944 he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where he studied with the preeminent Protestant theologians of the 20th century, Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich. In 1950 he received his Ph.D degree from New York University. He completed post graduate work at the New York School for Social Research, William Alanson White school of Psychiatry, and Columbia University.
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