Michael Nazir-Ali
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The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Michael Nazir-Ali (born 1949) is the current Bishop of Rochester in the Church of England.
Nazir-Ali was born in Karachi, Pakistan to a Shi'a Muslim family. He attended a Roman Catholic school and became a practising Catholic at the age of 15, but was received into the Anglican Church around the age of 20. He worked as a priest in Karachi and Lahore, and became the first Bishop of Raiwind. Following his emigration to England, he was appointed Bishop of Rochester in 1994, and in 1999 entered the House of Lords.
He is considered to be on the conservative and evangelical wing of the Anglican Church, and is firmly opposed to the ordination of gay and lesbian clergy.
References
- ↑ [Anglican bishop has 'Catholic past'], BBC News, 12 January 2002
- ↑ [Canterbury candidate - Michael Nazir-Ali], BBC News, 20 June 2002
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