About Father Jeffrey Smith

The Rev. Jeffrey Smith, Vicar, was ordained priest in 1986 by the first bishop of the APCK, the Rt. Rev. Robert Sherwood Morse, at Church of Our Saviour in west Los Angeles, where he served for a while as Curate. He was Rector of All Saints Anglican Church in Aiken, South Carolina — a parish of the Anglican Catholic Church — from 1990 to 1998. In his last assignment before coming to St. Luke's, he planted a congregation in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and another in Windsor, Colorado, and served them from 2001 to 2009, getting both of them into their own buildings.  He began his tenure as the Rector of St Luke's in the fall of 2009. He has also assisted in the formation or development of young congregations in California, Alabama, and Arizona, sometimes working as a part-time teacher at a college or secondary school. He earned an A.B. in history with honors at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, an M.A. in history at Loma Linda University in California, and was working on a doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley when called to the sacred ministry. He then entered St. Joseph of Arimathea Anglican Theological College and earned there an S.T.B. (Bachelor's in Sacred Theology), studying principally under Fr. Alexander Golitzin, a priest and monk of the Orthodox Church of America (now Professor of Patristic Theology at Marquette University). Fr. Smith's wife, Lynn, grew up in a village three miles from Durham Cathedral in England, and now uses the embroidery skills that she learned in her youth to make altar linens for liturgical churches throughout North America www.altarlinens.com. They have two dogs — Ridley, a West Highland Terrier, and Latimer, a Pembroke Welsh Corgi.