“There’s an art form to a worship service, particularly an Episcopal service,” said Fleming, Reeves’ godson. “I think his strength was in the liturgy. He was a consummate liturgist.”
Reeves, 91, died Thursday in Asheville, N.C.
Reeves retired to North Carolina in 1985 after serving more than a decade as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia. He was consecrated the diocese’s seventh bishop in 1969.
The Right Rev. Harry W. Shipps, who succeeded Reeves as bishop, remembered the man both for his strong views and his sense of humor.
“I greatly valued his wisdom, and recall his strong commitment to the historic traditions of the Church,” Shipps said. “He had an ironic sense of humor that always amused.”
Sounds like my kind of Bishop. Wish he’d been mine. Would that there were more like him today.