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Arthur Selden Lloyd (May 3, 1857 – July 22, 1936) was president of the Board of Missions of the Episcopal Church. He was the
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from 1909 to 1911 and then Suffragan Bishop of New York from 1921 until 1936.


Biography

He was born in Mount Ida, Virginia on May 3, 1857, to John Janney Lloyd and Eliza Armistead Selden. He was educated at the
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, and later he attended
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. He entered the ministry of the Episcopal Church and was ordained deacon on June 25, 1880, and priest on June 24, 1881. He then served as a missionary in
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till 1885. Between 1885 and 1899, he was rector of St Luke's Church in
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. From 1900 until 1909 he was general secretary of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society. He married Elizabeth Robertson Blackford on June 30, 1880. Lloyd was elected to numerous bishoprics which he declined, notably Bishop of Mississippi in 1903, Bishop of Kentucky in 1904, Bishop Coadjutor of Southern Virginia in 1905 and Coadjutor Bishop of Maryland in 1908. However, in the summer of 1909 he was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Virginia, which he accepted. He was consecrated on October 20, 1909, in
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by Presiding Bishop Daniel S. Tuttle. He resigned his bishopric in 1910 and went back to the Church Missions House where he had served prior to his election. He was selected as its president and re-elected in 1916. When the missionary society was revamped in 1919, the presidency held by Bishop Lloyd was abolished and he in turn he became rector of St Bartholomew's Church in
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. On May 12, 1921, he was elected Suffragan Bishop of New York, a post he retained till his death. His wife died in 1932. He died on July 22, 1936, in
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.


References


External links


Extracts from the Correspondence of Arthur Selden Lloyd (1938)
from
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