Loren Nichols Gavitt (February 13, 1900 – March 23, 1972) was a notable American Anglo-Catholic liturgist in the Episcopal Church during the twentieth century.
His devotional manual St. Augustine's Prayer Book has been in print continuously since 1947.
Born in Westerly, Rhode Island, Gavitt was graduated from the General Theological Seminary and ordained to the priesthood in 1927 by the Right Reverend Thomas J. Garland of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.
He was an oblate of the Order of the Holy Cross as well as a member of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, the Guild of All Souls, and the American Church Union.
Gavitt died at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany and is buried at River Bend Cemetery in Westerly, Rhode Island.