Rt rev michael nazir-ali biography
Rt rev michael nazir-ali biography
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Michael Nazir-Ali
British-Pakistani cleric (born 1949)
Michael James Nazir-Ali (Urdu: مائیکل نذیر علی; born 19 August 1949) is a Pakistani-born British Roman 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.[1] 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,[2] one of several Anglican bishops who converted to Catholicism that year.
In 2022, he was made a [[monsignor] and Prelate of honour to the Holy See. He is a dual citizen of Pakistan and Britain.
Background
Michael Nazir-Ali was born in Karachi, Pakistan, on 19 August 1949, the son of James and Patience Nazir-Ali.[3] He has both a Christian and a Muslim family background – his father's family