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Thursday 9 October 2003

Westminster Abbey

9 October 2003

The Queen has approved that the Reverend Professor Nicholas Sagovsky, MA, PhD, be appointed to the Residentiary Canonry in Westminster Abbey in succession to the Reverend Canon Nicholas Thomas Wright, MA, DPhil, DD, on his elevation to the Bishopric of Durham.

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Professor Nicholas Sagovsky (born 1947) was Curate St Gabriel’s Church, Heaton, Newcastle from 1974 to 1977 and temporary Curate, Cambridge Great St Mary with St Michael, Cambridge during 1981. From 1982 to 1986 he was Vice-Principal and Director of Studies, Edinburgh Theological College and from 1986 to 1997 Fellow, Dean and Director of Studies in Theology, Clare College, Cambridge. From 1997 to 2002 he was William Leech Professorial Research Fellow in Applied Christian Theology, Newcastle University. Since 2002 he has been Professor of Theology and Public Life, Liverpool Hope University College. Professor Sagovsky is the author of a number of books and articles on a wide range of subjects, in particular ecumenism, theology and justice, and 19th and 20th century theology.

He is married to Ruth, an NHS Consultant Psychiatrist and they have one son and one daughter. His recreations include rough gardening and other Northumbrian pursuits.

 

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