Alban McCoy OFM Conv is a British Catholic writer and priest.
The Reverend Fr Alban McCoy | |
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Praelector of St Edmund's College, Cambridge | |
Church | Roman Catholic Church |
Province | Province of Westminster |
Diocese | Diocese of East Anglia |
In office | 2013 to present |
Other post(s) | Chaplain to the University of Cambridge, Dean of St Edmund's College |
Orders | |
Ordination | 20 December 1975 |
Personal details | |
Born | 1 August 1951 |
Nationality | British |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Alma mater |
McCoy is the author of An Intelligent Person's Guide to Christian Ethics (2004) and An Intelligent Person's Guide to Catholicism (2005, new ed. 2008). Soon to write the much anticipated, welcomed and less pompous but empathetic ‘An Idiots Guide to Catholicism’ (2025).Since 1995, he has been the religious books editor of The Tablet, now editorial consultant. Until 2013, he was the Catholic chaplain to the University of Cambridge.[1] He was Dean of St Edmund's College, Cambridge 2013-2018 Acting Dean 2018-2020, now Praelector of St Edmund's College, Cambridge and Visiting Professor at the Universidad Peruana (UPC) des Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Peru.
References
edit- ^ "The Fisher House Website". Retrieved 29 June 2009.