Jeffrey William Mello is an American Episcopal clergyman who has served as 16th Bishop of Connecticut since 2022.
[1][2][3] Born and raised in Cranston, Rhode Island, Mello obtained a Bachelor's degree from Rhode Island College in 1991 and a Master's degree in social work from Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2000.
[1] After working as a clinical social worker in the addiction psychiatry unit of Massachusetts General Hospital for several years, he studied for a master's degree in divinity at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which he was awarded in 2007.
[1][2] Mello was ordained a deacon on June 2, 2007, and a priest on January 12, 2008.
[3] Mello's husband, Paul, is the founder and artistic director of a theater company in Boston and teaches at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music.