Michael Nazir-Ali
Michael Nazir-Ali | |
|---|---|
Nazir-Ali in 2011 | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| Diocese | Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1976 (Anglican priest) 2021 (Roman Catholic priest) |
| Consecration | 1984 (Anglican bishop) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 August 1949 |
| Nationality | Pakistan British |
| Denomination | Catholicism Anglicanism (until 2021) |
| Spouse |
Valerie Cree (m. 1972) |
| Children | 2 |
Michael James Nazir-Ali (Urdu: مائیکل نذیر علی; born 19 August 1949) is a Pakistani-born British Catholic priest and former Anglican bishop. He served as the 106th Bishop of Rochester from 1994 to 2009 and, before that, as Bishop of Raiwind in Pakistan. He is currently the director of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue.
In 2021, he was received into the Catholic Church and was ordained as a priest for the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham on 30 October 2021, one of several Anglican bishops who converted to Catholicism that year. In 2022, he was made a monsignor and Prelate of Honour of His Holiness to the Holy See. He is a dual citizen of Pakistan and Britain.