Sally Dyck

Sally Dyck is an American minister who is a bishop in the United Methodist Church, the second largest Protestant denomination in the United States. In 2021, she will begin serving as the Ecumenical Officer of the Council of Bishops of the United Methodist Church.

Biography and Education

Sally Dyck was born in Ritzville, Washington into a Mennonite family. She later joined the United Methodist Church as a young adult. She attended Boston University's College of Liberal Arts, and graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.

In 1978, she graduated magna cum laude from Boston University School of Theology with a Master of Divinity (M.Div.). In 1978, she also attended the Bossey Ecumenical Institute in Switzerland, which is affiliated with the World Council of Churches, earning a graduate certificate in ecumenical studies.

Dyck was ordained as a United Methodist Elder in 1981 in the East Ohio Annual Conference. After ordination, she served as a pastor in two churches, before becoming district superintendent in the Wooster, Ohio area. She then returned to parish ministry at Garfield Memorial Church.

She has served two terms on the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, having been elected at the Porto Allegre Assembly of the WCC in 2006, and re-elected for a second term of seven years in 2013. For her second term, she was one of three representatives from the UMC on the Executive Committee, which has 150 members drawn from churches worldwide.

Dyck is scheduled to retire as a bishop at the end of 2020. She was elected as the new Ecumenical Officer of the Council of Bishops of the United Methodist Church in November 2019, and will begin her four year term on January 1, 2021. She takes on this new position at a time when discussions are ongoing regarding the possible division of the United Methodist Church. At the next quadrennial meeting of the General Conference, tentatively scheduled for late August 2021,

Writings Dyck has written a devotional guide for women called A Faithful Heart—Daily Guide for Joyful Living.

Personal life She married Kenneth Ehrman in 1976.