Regius Professor of Divinity

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The Regius Professorships of Divinity are amongst the oldest professorships at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. A third chair existed for a period at Trinity College Dublin.

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The Oxford and Cambridge chairs were founded by Henry VIII. The chair at Cambridge originally had a stipend of £40 per year (which is still paid to the incumbent by Trinity College), later increased by James I with the rectory of Somersham, Cambridgeshire.[ citation needed ]

Professors at Oxford

(Sources: Oxford Historical Register 1200-1900 and supplements; and the Oxford University Calendar)

Professors at Cambridge

Professors at Dublin

The Regius Professor of Divinity at Trinity College Dublin was established in 1607 as the "Professor of Theological Controversies". [20] [21] The endowment was increased in 1674 by letters patent of Charles II. [21] The title "Regius Professor" was specified in 1761 by letters patent of George III. [21] [22] The School of Divinity was founded in the late 18th century with the Regius Professor as its head. [23] The School's link to the Church of Ireland was controversial after the Irish Church Act 1869 disestablished the church and the University of Dublin Tests Act 1873 allowed non-Anglican fellows. [24] The debate became dormant after 1911 letters patent altered the School's governance. [24] [25] It reignited in the 1960s, after which vacancies in the School of Divinity went unfilled, [24] [25] including the Regius Professorship in 1982. [26] The School of Divinity was replaced in 1978–81 by a non-denominational School of Hebrew, Biblical and Theological Studies (renamed the Department of Religions and Theology in 2004) although the statutes mandating a School and Regius Professor of Divinity remain unrepealed. [25] [26] [27]

Professors were: [21]

Professors of Divinity

Regius Professors of Divinity

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  21. 1 2 3 4 "Regius Professor of Divinity". The Dublin University Calendar. 1867. pp. 247–249.
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  25. 1 2 3 Webb, David (1993). "Appendix 1 – Divinity School Council Prefatory Note" (PDF). Consolidated Statutes. Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 22 March 2017.
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  31. ↑ Dublin University magazine: a literary and political journal 1841- Volume 17 - Page 634 "The whole Works of Richard Graves, D.D. late Dean of Ardagh, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Dublin, now first collected, with a Memoir of his Life and Writings, by his son, Richard Hastings Graves, D.D., Rector of Brigown ..."
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  37. ↑ "Prizes and other Awards" (PDF). Calendar 2006–07. Trinity College Dublin. Newport White Prize. Retrieved 22 March 2017. This prize was founded in 1935 by a gift from N. J. D. White, Regius Professor of Divinity 1930–35
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