Carroll Eugene Simcox (April 14, 1912 – October 16, 2002) was an American Episcopal priest and editor of ''

The Living Church ''The Living Church'' is a magazine based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, providing commentary and news on the Episcopal Church and the wider Anglican Communion. In continuous publication since 1878, it has generally been identified with the Anglo-Catho ...

'' magazine. Simcox was born in

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and educated at the

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. He received his master's degree from Oberlin Theological Seminary and later his Doctorate in Classical Philology from the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univer ...

. He was ordained deacon in 1937 and priest in 1938. Simcox was rector of Zion Episcopal Church,

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, and instructor at

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from 1950 to 1955. In the 1950s he was on the staff of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Fifth Avenue in New York City. He served as rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Tampa, Florida from 1958 to 1964. In Vermont, Simcox began a serious writing career. In 1982, he left the Episcopal Church to join the

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, and later served as a priest in the

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. His wife Georgiana (died 1999) was news editor of ''The Living Church''.

Bibliography

* ''Living the Creed'' (Morehouse-Gorham, 1950) * ''Historical road of Anglicanism'' (Regnery, 1968) * ''Treasury of Quotations on Christian Themes'' (Seabury, 1975) * ''Prayer: The Divine Dialog'' (Intervarsity Press, 1985) * ''Eternal You: An Exploration of a Spiritual Intuition'' (New York: Crossroad, 1986)

References

* "Former TLC Editor, the Rev. Caroll Simcox, dies at age 90," obituary notice in ''The Living Church'', November 10, 2002, p. 14.

External links

*
Natter (BLOG) from Louie Crew's Anglican Pages (Unofficial)
Email appreciation of Simcox by Louie Crew

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