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description: "Very Rev. Dr John McGuckin, Adjunct Lecturer in Patristics. Fr John Anthony McGuckin was the Nielsen Professor of Early Church History at Union Theological…"
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Qualifications

* B.D. (Hons First Class) University of London
* Ph.D. University of Durham
* M.A. University of Southampton
* D.D. (Honoris Causa) St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary
* D. Litt. (Honoris Causa) Lucian University, Romania

Adjunct Faculty

# Very Rev. Dr John McGuckin

Adjunct Lecturer in Patristics

**Fr John Anthony McGuckin** was the Nielsen Professor of Early Church History at Union Theological Seminary (1997–2017), as well as Professor of Byzantine Christianity at Columbia University in New York (2002–2017). He is the author of _[St Cyril of Alexandria and the Christological Controversy](https://svspress.com/saint-cyril-of-alexandria-and-the-christological-controversy/), [St Gregory of Nazianzus: An Intellectual Biography](https://svspress.com/saint-gregory-of-nazianzus-an-intellectual-biography/)_ and the editor and translator of the standard English edition of St Cyril’s [_On the Unity of Christ_](https://svspress.com/on-the-unity-of-christ-st-cyril-of-alexandria/). He currently serves on the faculty of church history at the University of Oxford and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is an archpriest of the Romanian Orthodox Church and serves a parish in England.

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