Michael Nazir-Ali
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The Right Reverend Michael Nazir-Ali |
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| Former Bishop of Rochester | |
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| Church | Church of England |
| Diocese | Diocese of Rochester |
| In office | 1994–2009 |
| Predecessor | Michael Turnbull |
| Successor | James Langstaff |
| Other posts | Bishop of Raiwind, Pakistan General Secretary, Church Mission Society |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1976 |
| Consecration | 1984 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
19 August 1949 Karachi, Pakistan |
| Nationality | Pakistani and British |
| Parents | James and Patience Nazir-Ali |
| Spouse | Valerie Cree (m. 1972) |
| Children | Two |
Michael James Nazir-Ali (Urdu: مائیکل نذیر علی; born 19 August 1949) is an Anglican bishop who was the 106th Bishop of Rochester in the Church of England from 1994 to 2009. He is now director of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue, and has been Visiting Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, in the United States, since 2010. He is a dual citizen of Pakistan and Britain.
Michael Nazir-Ali was born in Karachi, Pakistan on 19 August 1949, the son of James and Patience Nazir-Ali. He has both a Christian and a Muslim family background. His father converted from Shia Islam. He attended the Roman Catholic-run St Paul's School and St Patrick's College in Karachi and attended Roman Catholic services there. He began identifying as a Christian at the age of 15; he was formally received into the Anglican Church of Pakistan aged 20.
Nazir-Ali attended St Paul's English High School, Karachi, and St Patrick's College and later studied economics, Islamic history and sociology at the University of Karachi (BA 1970). He studied in preparation for ordination at Ridley Hall, Cambridge (1970) and undertook postgraduate studies in theology at St Edmund Hall, Oxford (BLitt 1974, MLitt 1981), Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (MLitt 1976) and the Australian College of Theology (ThD 1983). He has also studied at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School and in 2005 he was awarded the Lambeth DD. In 2003 he was awarded an honorary (Doctor of Letters) degree from the University of Bath; he also has honorary doctorates from the universities of Kent and Greenwich and a number in the United States. His particular academic interests include comparative literature and comparative philosophy of religion. In addition to teaching appointments in colleges and universities in many parts of the world, he has been a tutor at the University of Cambridge, a senior tutor at Karachi Theological College and Visiting Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Greenwich. He has been elected an honorary fellow of his colleges at Oxford (St Edmund Hall) and Cambridge (Fitzwilliam). From 1986 until 1989, while he was assistant to the Archbishop of Canterbury and Co-ordinator of Studies and Education for the Lambeth Conference, he was an honorary curate of St Giles', Oxford, and St Philip and St James with St Margaret. In 2010 he was appointed as a senior fellow of Wycliffe Hall and is on the faculty of the London School of Theology, the Lahore College of Theology, the Alexandria School of Theology and the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS).
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