Aidan Nichols
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Very Rev John Christopher "Aidan" Nichols O.P., S.T.M. |
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Aidan Nichols (2014)
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17 September 1948 Lytham St Annes |
| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Catholic (Roman Rite) |
| Residence | Cambridge Blackfriars |
| Occupation | Priest, academic, theologian |
| Alma mater |
Christ Church, Oxford Blackfriars, Oxford University of Edinburgh Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas |
| Ordination history of Aidan Nichols | |
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Priestly ordination
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| Date of ordination | July 7, 1976 |
John Christopher "Aidan" Nichols O.P., S.T.M. (born 17 September 1948) is an English academic and Catholic priest.
Nichols served as the first John Paul II Memorial Visiting Lecturer at the University of Oxford for 2006 to 2008, the first lectureship of Catholic theology at that university since the Reformation. He is a member of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) and is the Prior of St Michael the Archangel in Cambridge.
Nichols was born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire on 17 September 1948. He graduated from Christ Church, Oxford with a first in modern history and entered the Dominican order the same year. He spent the next seven years at Blackfriars, Oxford, during which time he was ordained to the priesthood. He then moved to Edinburgh, where he was a Catholic chaplain at the University of Edinburgh. It was at Edinburgh in 1986 that he received his PhD. Between 1983 and 1991 he was Lecturer in Dogmatics and Ecumenics at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome. In 1990 he was awarded the degree of Licentiate of Sacred Theology from the Angelicum. In 2003 the Master of the Dominican Order conferred on Nichols the degree of Master of Sacred Theology.
From Rome he moved back to England and to Cambridge, where he began as Assistant Catholic Chaplain, then as an Affiliated University Lecturer (1998) as Prior of St Michael's for two terms of office between 1998 and 2004 and again for a third term from 2013.
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