Reeves Paul

American bishop who served as the Seventh Bishop of Georgia in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA). He was a 1940 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Randolph-Macon College and received a Bachelor in Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in 1943. He was ordained as a deacon on 6 May 1948 and to the priesthood on All Saints Day (1 November) of the same year. He served as Navy chaplain aboard the USS Piedmont during World War II. He was a rector through the 1950s and 1960s. He served 15 years—the last eight as president—on the standing committee of the Diocese of Central Florida and was a deputy to three general conventions. Reeves was consecrated as the seventh bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia at Christ Church, Savannah, on 30 September 1969. He stood in opposition to the 1979 revisions to the Book of Common Prayer and the ordination of women in The Episcopal Church. Reeves served as diocesan bishop from 1972 to 1985. On 18 December 1943 he married Adele Ethel Beer, and they had two children. He died on 15 April 2010 at age 91 in Asheville, North Carolina. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less