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Father Evan Simington
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Parochial Vicarfr.evan.simingtonordinariate.netFr. Evan Simington was born to Bruce and Marcia Simington on February 18th, 1986, in Marietta, Georgia. He is the youngest child of the Simington family with an older sister, Sharon Simington, and eldest brother; Keith Simington. Fr. Simington was baptized in the Episcopal Church as an infant. Fr. Simington and his family then moved from Marietta, Georgia, to Long Island, New York, before taking up residence in Bradenton, Florida.
In Florida, Fr. Evan attended and graduated from Florida State University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and Religion in December 2008. While studying at F.S.U., Fr. Evan began discerning a potential call to ordained ministry in the Anglican/Episcopal Church. Following his graduation from F.S.U. and to better discern a potential calling to the priesthood, Fr. Evan matriculated to Nashotah House Theological Seminary in Nashotah, Wisconsin.
After graduating from Nashotah House Theological Seminary in 2014 with his Master of Divinity degree, he felt compelled and drawn by Christ to be received into full communion with the Catholic Church through the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter in Greenville, South Carolina. Providentially, Fr. Evan’s discernment to the priesthood and Pope Benedict’s vision for the Ordinariate coalesced with great serendipity. Fr. Evan was formally accepted as the first seminarian for the Ordinariate. In August 2015, Fr. Evan Simington began his Catholic theological formation with the Ordinariate at St. Mary’s Catholic Seminary in Houston, Texas. On the Feast of the Visitation, May 31st, 2016, Fr. Simington was ordained to the Diaconate by Bishop Steven Lopes and to the Priesthood on the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul on June 29th, 2017.
In July 2017, Fr. Simington took his first priestly assignment to St. Alban’s Ordinariate Catholic Church in Rochester, New York, while also serving the Parish of St. Kateri Tekakwitha in the Diocese of Rochester. In July of 2020, Bishop Lopes reassigned Fr. Simington to St. John Henry Newman Ordinariate Catholic Church in Irvine, California, and St. Timothy’s Catholic Church of the Diocese of Orange. News of Fr. Simington’s third priestly assignment came in July 2023. Currently Fr. Simington is serving the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham as Parochial Vicar and Cathedral High School as Chaplain.
