Abstract

On Wednesday the 8th February, Archbishop Vincent Nichols will deliver a public lecture on Jewish-Christian relations. The high profile Woolf Institute lecture, which will take place at St Edmund’s College, starts at 5.30pm and will be dedicated to the memory of Melanie Wright (1970 – 2011), the first Academic Director of CJCR .

Vincent Nichols is the 11th Archbishop of Westminster, having previously been Archbishop of Birmingham. He was installed as Archbishop of Westminster on 21 May 2009 following the retirement of Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor. In 2010 he received an Honorary Doctoral Degree from Birmingham University, and in 2011 he received an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Liverpool Hope University. Archbishop Vincent Nichols is a patron of the Woolf Institute as well as a number of Catholic charities including The Passage and the Cardinal Hume Centre.

This lecture will be the Archbishop’s first major public address on Christian-Jewish Relations since becoming Archbishop of Westminster.