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Bold appointment of first Catholic professor

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The appointment of James P. Mackey as the first Catholic professor of theology at Edinburgh was controversial. He was not the first ordained Catholic to teach at New College but the decision to give him a chair was a bold step. Mackey served as Dean of the Faculty of Divinity 1984-88.

 

Professor James Mackey, ©The University of Edinburgh

 

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