Theodore Benedict Lyman (November 27, 1815 – December 13, 1893), was the fourth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina.

[3] He was educated at Hamilton College and General Theological Seminary.

He spent some time traveling around Europe and the Middle East He also served as chaplain at the Embassy of the United States, Rome.

He returned to the United States in 1870 became rector of Trinity Church in San Francisco.

After his death at age seventy-eight, he was interred in Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh; in 1914 he was reinterred under the altar of the newly completed sanctuary of the Church of the Good Shepherd which had been planned to serve as the new cathedral.