Doctors of Divinity

The list Doctors of Divinity includes Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Jonathan Swift, John Newton, John Buchan and Justin Welby. The list consists of 180 members.

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Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

American politician

Overview: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (November 29, 1908 – April 4, 1972) was an American Baptist pastor and politician who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the United States House of Represe ...

Date of birth: 29 November 1908

Date of death: 4 April 1972

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Religion

Gender: Male

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Baptists from New York (state) 133T

Politicians from New Haven, Connecticut 84T

American emigrants to the Bahamas 5T
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Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish satirist and cleric (1667–1745)

Overview: Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and Anglican cleric who became Dean of ...

Date of birth: 30 November 1667

Date of death: 19 October 1745

Age: 77 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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People from Trim, County Meath 17T

Writers from County Meath 29T

Misanthropists 1T
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John Buchan

British politician

Overview: John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC DL (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since ...

Date of birth: 26 August 1875

Date of death: 11 February 1940

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Politicians who died in office 2,943T

UK MPs who were granted peerages 853T

People who died in office 731T
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John Newton

British sailor and Anglican clergyman

Overview: John Newton (4 August [O.S. 24 July] 1725 – 21 December 1807) was an English Anglican cleric, a captain of slave ships who later became an abolitionist, and an investor of trade. He served as a ...

Date of birth: 24 July 1725

Date of death: 21 December 1807

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Sailors from London 35T

Christian abolitionists 358T

Evangelical Anglican clergy 85T
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Justin Welby

Archbishopof Canterbury

Overview: Justin Portal Welby (born 6 January 1956) is the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury and the most senior Bishop in the Church of England. He has served in that role since 2013. Welby was the Vicar of Southam ...

Date of birth: 6 January 1956

Age: 69

Nationality: English

Occupation: Religion

Gender: Male

Partner: Caroline Eaton (Married)

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21st-century Church of England bishops 171T

Clergy from Lincolnshire 3T

Anglican clergy from London 92T
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Cyril Garbett

Archbishop of York

Overview: Cyril Forster Garbett GCVO, PC (6 February 1875 – 31 December 1955) was an Anglican bishop. He was the Archbishop of York from 1942 to 1955.

Date of birth: 6 February 1875

Date of death: 31 December 1955

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: British

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People educated at Portsmouth Grammar School 48T

Bishops of Southwark 12T

People from Tongham 2T
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Cosmo Gordon Lang

British clergyman

Overview: William Cosmo Gordon Lang, 1st Baron Lang of Lambeth, GCVO, PC (known as Cosmo; 31 October 1864 – 5 December 1945) was a Scottish Anglican prelate who served as Archbishop of York (1908–1928) and ...

Date of birth: 31 October 1864

Date of death: 5 December 1945

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: Scottish

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British Anglo-Catholics 32T

19th-century English Anglican priests 1,174T

Burials at Canterbury Cathedral 43T
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Francis Schaeffer

American theologian

Overview: Francis August Schaeffer (January 30, 1912 – May 15, 1984) was an American evangelical theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor. He is best known for co-founding the L'Abri community in Switzerland ...

Date of birth: 30 January 1912

Date of death: 15 May 1984

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Critic

Gender: Male

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20th-century American philosophers 713T

Clergy from Philadelphia 142T

Faith Theological Seminary alumni 11T
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Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Catholic bishop

Overview: Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet (27 September 1627 – 12 April 1704) was a French bishop and theologian, renowned for his sermons and other addresses. He has been considered by many to be one of the most ...

Date of birth: 27 September 1627

Date of death: 12 April 1704

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Religion

Gender: Male

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People involved in anti-Protestantism 44T

18th-century French Roman Catholic bishops 27T

17th-century French Roman Catholic bishops 28T
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Robert Lowth

English bishop and grammarian (1710–1787)

Overview: Robert Lowth FRS (27 November 1710 – 3 November 1787) was a Bishop of the Church of England, Oxford Professor of Poetry and the author of one of the most influential textbooks of English grammar.

Date of birth: 27 November 1710

Date of death: 3 November 1787

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Scientist

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18th-century Welsh Anglican bishops 52T

18th-century Church of England bishops 123T

Burials at All Saints Church, Fulham 21T
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Rowan Williams

Archbishop of Canterbury (2002–2012)

Overview: Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth, PC, FBA, FRSL, FLSW (born 14 June 1950) is a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet. He was the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, a ...

Date of birth: 14 June 1950

Age: 75

Nationality: Welsh

Occupation: Poet

Gender: Male

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Welsh Anglo-Catholics 13T

Freemen of the City of Canterbury 7T

Recipients of the President's Medal (British Academy) 34T
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Thomas Cranmer

Archbishop of Canterbury

Overview: Thomas Cranmer (2 July 1489 – 21 March 1556) was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He helped build ...

Date of birth: 2 July 1489

Date of death: 21 March 1556

Age: 66 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Critic

Gender: Male

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Evangelical Anglican bishops 81T

Evangelical Anglican theologians 36T

Protestant martyrs of England 72T
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John Henry Newman

English cleric and cardinal (1801–1890)

Overview: John Henry Newman (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was an English theologian and poet, first an Anglican priest and later a Catholic priest and cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure ...

Date of birth: 21 February 1801

Date of death: 11 August 1890

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Critic

Gender: Male

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19th-century British cardinals 6T

Catholic saints who converted from Protestantism 17T

Cardinals created by Pope Leo XIII 148T
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Geoffrey Fisher

Archbishop of Canterbury

Overview: Geoffrey Worth-Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth GCVO PC (5 May 1887 – 15 September 1972) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 to 1961.

Date of birth: 5 May 1887

Date of death: 15 September 1972

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: British

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People from Lindley, Leicestershire 4T

Headmasters of Repton School 11T

Freemasons of the United Grand Lodge of England 244T
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Joshua Young

Abolitionist Congregational Unitarian minister

Overview: Joshua Young (September 23, 1823 – February 7, 1904) was an abolitionist Congregational Unitarian minister who crossed paths with many famous people of the mid-19th century. He received national publicity ...

Date of birth: 23 September 1823

Date of death: 7 February 1904

Age: 80 (age at death)

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People from Pittston, Maine 10T

People from Groton, Massachusetts 44T

American Congregationalist ministers 273T
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Francis H. Rowley

Baptist minister and animal welfare campaigner

Overview: Francis Harold Rowley (July 25, 1852 – February 14, 1954) was an American Baptist minister, animal welfare campaigner and hymn writer.

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Edward Harding MacBurney

American bishop (1927–2022)

Overview: Edward Harding "Ed" MacBurney SSC (October 30, 1927 — March 17, 2022) was an American Anglican bishop. He was born in Albany, New York to Alfred Cadwell MacBurney (1896-1986) and Florence Marion McDowell ...

Date of birth: 30 October 1927

Date of death: 17 March 2022

Age: 94 (age at death)

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Thomas Strong (bishop)

Bishop of Oxford (1861–1944)

Overview: Thomas Banks Strong GBE (24 October 1861 – 8 July 1944) was an English theologian who was Bishop of Ripon and Oxford. He was also Dean of Christ Church, Oxford and served as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford ...

Date of birth: 24 October 1861

Date of death: 8 July 1944

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: British

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Bishops of Ripon (modern diocese) 12T

20th-century English Anglican priests 771T

19th-century English Anglican priests 1,174T
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Henry Campbell

Bishop of Willesden; Bishop of Kensington; Bishop of Guildford; Bishop of London

Overview: Henry Colville Montgomery Campbell, KCVO MC PC (11 October 1887 – 26 December 1970) was a Church of England bishop. He was ordained in 1910 and served as vicar or rector in a number of London parishes ...

Date of birth: 11 October 1887

Date of death: 26 December 1970

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: British

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20th-century Church of England bishops 508T

Alumni of Wells Theological College 38T

People educated at Malvern College 277T
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Thomas Musgrave (bishop)

Overview: Thomas Musgrave (30 March 1788 – 4 May 1860) was Archbishop of York from 1847 to 1860.

Date of birth: 30 March 1788

Date of death: 4 May 1860

Age: 72 (age at death)

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19th-century Anglican archbishops 27T

Bishops of Hereford 111T

People from Broadland (district) 76T