Alban McCoy

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Alban McCoy

Praelector of St Edmund's College, Cambridge
Church Roman Catholic Church
Province Province of Westminster
Diocese Diocese of East Anglia
In office2013 to present
Other post(s) Chaplain to the University of Cambridge, Dean of St Edmund's College
Orders
Ordination20 December 1975
Personal details
Born1 August 1951
NationalityBritish
Denomination Roman Catholic
Alma mater

Alban McCoy OFM Conv is a British Catholic writer and priest.

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). 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.

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