Ernest Thomas Dixon Jr. (13 October 1922 - 29 June 1996)[1] was an American bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1972.
He earned his Bachelor of Divinity degree from Drew Theological Seminary in Madison, New Jersey in 1945.
Prior to his election to the episcopacy, Ernest served as a pastor of churches in Texas, New York and New Jersey.
churchwide agencies: the Board of Education of The Methodist Church, based in Nashville; and the Program Council of the U.M.
Bishop Dixon died 29 June 1996 at the Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, where he had been a patient.
Jerry J. Smith, Assistant to then-Bishop of the San Antonio Area, Bishop Ray Owen.
Smith, a former member of Bishop Dixon's Cabinet, remembered him as a "distinguished" and "dynamic" and "much loved" leader who rose from humble beginnings on the east side of San Antonio to become a religious leader of the entire city.