Aidan Nichols


Aidan Nichols

Nichols in 2014
Orders
Ordination7 July 1976
Personal details
Born (1948-09-17) 17 September 1948 (age 76)
DenominationCatholic (Latin Church)
ResidenceCambridge Blackfriars
OccupationPriest, academic, theologian
Alma materChrist Church, Oxford
Blackfriars, Oxford
University of Edinburgh
Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas

John Christopher "Aidan" Nichols OP[1] (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 Protestant Reformation. He is a member of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) residing in the Priory of St Michael the Archangel in Cambridge, England.

  1. ^ "Sophia Institute: Fr. Aidan Nichols". Archived from the original on 17 March 2015. Retrieved 15 May 2015.