George Otto Simms

His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. George Otto Simms (4 July 1910- 15 November 1991), D.D., was an archbishop in the Church of Ireland. He was born at Combermore House in Lifford, a small town in the east of County Donegal, part of the Province of Ulster in Ireland. He also attended the Prior School in Lifford for a time. He went on to study at Trinity College, Dublin, after having attended Cheltenham College, a public school in Britain.

He became a deacon in 1935 and a priest in 1936. He was appointed Dean of Cork in 1952; consecrated a bishop, he served as Lord Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, 1952-56.

He was successively Lord Archbishop of Dublin, from 1956 to 1969, and then Lord Archbishop of Armagh, from 1969 to 1980. He was also a scholar, who published research on the history of the Church of Ireland and on the "Book of Kells".

Publications

* For Better, for Worse, 1945
* The Book of Kells: a short description, 1950
* (ed with E. H. Alton and P. Meyer) The Book of Kells (facsimile edn), Berne, 1951
* The Bible in Perspective, 1953
* Christ within Me, 1975
* Irish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1980
* In My Understanding, 1982
* Tullow's Story, 1983
* (with R. G. F. Jenkins) Pioneers and Partners, 1985
* Angels and Saints, 1988
* Exploring the Book of Kells, 1988
* Brendan the Navigator, 1989