Nashotah House announces honorary degree recipients

From Episcopal Life Online-

Anglican Bishop and theologian Michael Nazir-Ali is due to receive an honorary degree May 20 from Nashotah House during the Episcopal church-affiliated seminary's 165th commencement.
Nazir-Ali, who will also be the commencement speaker, was bishop of Rochester, England, before resigning last year. He is now president of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy, and Dialogue.

Diocese of Qu'Appelle (Canada) Bishop Gregory K. Kerr-Wilson will also be awarded a doctor of divinity degree along with Nazir-Ali. The seminary will confer the doctor of humane letters degree on Edwina Thomas, who served for 20 years as director of SOMA-USA, a branch of an international Anglican organization devoted to short-term missions.

Nazir-Ali was reported to have been a leading candidate to become Archbishop of Canterbury when Rowan Williams was appointed. He was one of about 230 Anglican Communion bishops who boycotted the 2008 Lambeth Conference of bishops in Canterbury, England. Prior to the start of the conference, he told the Birmingham Post, a British newspaper, that his difficulty with attending the conference centered on "being in eucharistic fellowship with and teaching the common faith alongside those who have ordained a person to be bishop whose style of life is contrary to the unanimous teaching of the Bible and of the church down the ages." Nazir-Ali was referring to the Episcopal Church's approval of the Diocese of New Hampshire's election and ordination of Gene Robinson as its bishop in 2003.

Nazir-Ali currently serves as visiting professor of theology and religious studies in the University of Greenwich and on the faculty of the London School of Theology.

Twenty-two graduates will receive earned degrees and diplomas during the exercises that will be held at St. Jerome Catholic Church in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.

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