Michael Bland Simmons (died March 29 2024)[1] was an archbishop of the Anglican Church of the Americas,[2] a church in the Continuing Anglican movement, as well as an associate professor of history at Auburn University at Montgomery, Alabama.
from the University of South Alabama (1976), studying Spanish Language and Literature and (Latin American) History and working as a student pastor.
at the Duke Divinity School, having studied Comparative Semitics, and in 1982 received his Master of Sacred Theology at Yale University.
[3][4][5] Simmons was consecrated bishop at St. Jude's Episcopal Church, Marietta, Georgia in 2000.
He was elected archbishop in 2007 by the House of Bishops of the Anglican Province of Christ the Good Shepherd and was installed on March 26, 2008.