Our People

Prof. Nigel Biggar is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, University of Oxford and Canon of Christ Church.

After reading Modern History at Worcester College, Oxford, Prof. Biggar proceeded to study religion, theology, and ethics in Canada and the USA. On his return to Oxford in 1985 he became Librarian and Research Fellow at Latimer House, and then for most of the 1990s he was Chaplain and Fellow of Oriel College. In 1999 he took the Chair of Theology at the University of Leeds; and in 2004 he moved to the Chair of Theology and Ethics at Trinity College Dublin. He arrived in Christ Church in the autumn of 2007.