Iain Torrance


Iain Torrance

Moderator of the General Assembly
Torrance in 2011 with his dachshund Cassiopea
ChurchChurch of Scotland
In office2003 to 2004
PredecessorFinlay Macdonald
SuccessorAlison Elliot
Other post(s)Dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland (2013–19)
Dean of the Thistle (2014–19)
Orders
Ordination23 January 1982
Personal details
Born
Iain Richard Torrance

(1949-01-13) 13 January 1949 (age 75)
Aberdeen, Scotland
NationalityBritish
DenominationChurch of Scotland
Spouse
Morag Ann Torrance
(m. 1975)
Children2
OccupationRetired academic
Academic background
EducationEdinburgh Academy
Monkton Combe School
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
University of St Andrews
Oriel College, Oxford
ThesisA translation of the letters between Severus of Antioch and Sergius the Grammarian, with a theological introduction
Doctoral advisorSebastian Brock
Academic work
DisciplineTheology
Sub-discipline
Institutions

Sir Iain Richard Torrance, KCVO, OStJ, TD, FRSE (born 13 January 1949) is a retired Church of Scotland minister, theologian and academic. He is Pro-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen,[1] Honorary Professor of Early Christian Doctrine and Ethics at the University of Edinburgh, President and Professor of Patristics Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary, and an Extra Chaplain to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in Scotland.[2] He was formerly Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland,[3] and Dean of the Order of the Thistle. He is married to Morag Ann (née MacHugh), whom he met while they were students at the University of St Andrews, and they have two children.

  1. ^ "Duchess of Rothesay to be new Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen". University of Aberdeen. 15 February 2013.
  2. ^ "Court Circular". The Times. 2 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Court Circular". The Times. 5 July 2013. p. 53.