Arthur Seldon Lloyd

Arthur Selden Lloyd (May 3, 1857 – July 22, 1936) was president of the Board of Missions of the Episcopal Church. He was the coadjutor bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia 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 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the University of Virginia, the Virginia Theological Seminary with a D.D., and later he attended Roanoke College. 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 Prince Edward County, Virginia till 1885. Between 1885 and 1899, he was rector of St Luke's Church in Norfolk, Virginia. From 1900 until 1909 he was general secretary of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society. He married Elizabeth Robertson Blackford on June 30, 1880. He died on July 22, 1936, in Darien, Connecticut.