Andrew McGowan
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The Very Reverend Andrew McGowan |
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| Dean and President Berkeley Divinity School |
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Assumed office 1 August 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Joseph H. Britton |
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Warden of Trinity College University of Melbourne |
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In office 2007–2014 |
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| Preceded by | Donald Markwell |
| Succeeded by | Ken Hinchcliff |
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| Born |
Andrew Brian McGowan 1961 (age 55–56) Melbourne, Australia |
| Citizenship | Australia |
| Education | Christ Church Grammar School |
| Alma mater |
University of Western Australia Trinity College Theological School, Melbourne University of Notre Dame |
| Profession | Historian Priest Theologian |
| Ecclesiastical career | |
| Religion | Christianity (Anglicanism) |
| Church | Anglican Church of Australia |
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Offices held
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Canon of St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne (2007–2014) |
Andrew Brian McGowan (born 1961) is an Australian scholar of early Christianity and an Anglican priest. He is McFaddin Professor of Anglican Studies at Yale Divinity School and Dean and President of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale.
Prior to appointment at Berkeley and Yale he was seventh Warden of Trinity College (University of Melbourne) 2007-14, and Joan F.W. Munro Professor of Historical Theology in the Trinity College Theological School, Melbourne, within the University of Divinity.
McGowan was born in Melbourne, moving to Perth as a teenager. He attended Christ Church Grammar School in Perth, during which time he contributed to the musical circles that produced rock band The Triffids, and then studied classics and ancient history at the University of Western Australia (BA Hons 1983). He studied theology at Trinity College (BD (Hons) 1986) in Melbourne. After ordination he served a curacy in Como/Manning before appointment as Rector of Forrestfield in 1988. He then undertook doctoral studies in Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, United States (MA, PhD, 1996), where he was supervised by Harold W. Attridge.
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