Episcopal sister, 85, was first to be ordained to priesthood

From Georgia-

Today, the sisters of the Order of St. Helena gather to remember the Rev. Canon Mary Michael Simpson, who 34 years ago became the first nun ordained to the Episcopal priesthood.

Simpson, 85, died of kidney failure July 20 in Augusta. She will be buried today on the grounds of the Order of St. Helena in south Augusta.

Simpson moved to Augusta in 2008, when the order relocated some of its sisters from convents in New York to Georgia.

Simpson was a member of the order for more than half a century.
She was born in 1925 in Indiana and served as a college chaplain and missionary to Africa before entering the Order of St. Helena in 1956, according to the Episcopal Diocese in Georgia.

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