He served as Navy chaplain aboard the USS Piedmont during World War II.

[1] In parish ministry, he last served as the rector of St. Stephen's Church in Miami, from which post he was elected bishop coadjutor of Georgia in 1969.

[2] Reeves was consecrated as the seventh bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia at Christ Church, Savannah, on September 30, 1969.

He stood in opposition to the 1979 revisions to the Book of Common Prayer and the ordination of women in The Episcopal Church.

He was succeeded by Harry W. Shipps, who in recalling his predecessor in a Savannah Morning News article at the time of Reeves' death remembered both 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.