Career and service
Heaney was ordained deacon in the Cathedral Church of St. Patrick,Trim,Dioceses of Meath and Kildare in 2001 and ordained priest in the Cathedral Church of St. Brigid in 2002. [6]
From 2007 to 2010,he was a Tutor in Doctrine,Regent's Park College,University of Oxford and then from 2010 to 2013 Senior Lecturer in the School of Theology and Religious Studies,St. John's University of Tanzania,Director of Postgraduate Studies and Research,St. John's University of Tanzania and a member of the Senior Management Team,St. John's University of Tanzania. [7]
In 2013,he became assistant professor of Christian Mission,Virginia Theological Seminary and was promoted to associate professor in 2015. [8] Since 2020,he has been Professor of Theology and Mission,Virginia Theological Seminary. [9]
In 2016,the Archbishop of Canterbury appointed Heaney to serve on the Design Group for the fifteenth Lambeth Conference (the decennial assembly of Anglican bishops from the Anglican Communion). [10] He facilitated the two most contentious “Lambeth Calls”for the conference,the Call on “Anglican Identity”and the Call on “Human Dignity.”
In 2016,Heaney was awarded the Susan B. Thomas Prize for commitment to excellence in education and the mission of the Episcopal Church and in 2022,he was awarded the Cross of St. Augustine for outstanding service to the Anglican Communion. [11]
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