Abraham Jarvis

Abraham Jarvis (May 5, 1739 – May 3, 1813) was the second American Episcopal bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut and eighth in succession of bishops in the Episcopal Church. He was a high churchman and a loyalist to the crown.

The Right Reverend Abraham Jarvis D.D.
Bishop of Connecticut
Church	Episcopal Church
Diocese	Connecticut
In office	1797-1813
Predecessor	Samuel Seabury
Successor	Thomas Church Brownell
Orders
Ordination	February 19, 1764 by Charles Lyttelton
Consecration	October 18, 1797 by William White
Personal details
Born	(1739-05-05)May 5, 1739 Norwalk, Connecticut Colony
Died	May 3, 1813(1813-05-03) (aged 73) New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Buried	Trinity Church on the Green
Nationality	American
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	Samuel Jarvis & Naomi Brush
Spouse	Ann Farmer (1766-1801) Lucy Lewis (1806-1813)

Jarvis was born in Norwalk, Connecticut and graduated from Yale College in 1761. He studied under the Rev. Thomas Bradbury Chandler, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Elizabeth, N.J. He was ordained deacon on February 5, 1764, and priest on February 19, 1764, by the Church of England. He served as rector of Christ Church, Middletown, Connecticut, from 1764 to 1799.

Jarvis served as a chaplain to imprisoned Loyalist sympathizers during the American Revolution. He presided at a convention in New Haven, Connecticut, of clergy of Connecticut on July 23, 1776, which decided to suspend worship in the colony for fear of the British. He was one of ten Episcopal priests who met in Woodbury, Connecticut, on March 25, 1783, and elected Samuel Seabury as the first bishop of the Episcopal Church, serving as secretary of the meeting. Jarvis was consecrated second bishop of Connecticut on October 18, 1797. Completing his service in Middletown in 1799, he then served in Cheshire until 1803 and finally in New Haven, where he died. His remains are interred under the high altar at Trinity Church on the Green.[1]

Jarvis Hall, the oldest dormitory at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, is named after Abraham Jarvis.