Massey Hamilton Shepherd Jr. (March 14, 1913 – February 19, 1990) was an American priest and scholar of the Episcopal Church.

Less than four years later, he received both an undergraduate and a graduate degree simultaneously from the University of South Carolina in classical studies.

[citation needed] In 1937, he received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Chicago[2] and, in 1941, his Bachelor of Divinity degree from Berkeley Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut, where he worked closely with its Dean, liturgical reformer William Palmer Ladd, whose work he was to continue.

Early in his teaching career he held a faculty position at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

For many years, he was a faculty member at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California, and also in the Graduate Theological Union.