Nazir alli biography of barack

British-Pakistani cleric (born 1949)

Michael James Nazir-Ali (Urdu: مائیکل نذیر علی; born 19 August 1949) is a Pakistani-born British Roman Catholic priest and former Anglican bishop.

He served as the 106th Bishop of Rochester from 1994 to 2009 and, before that, as Bishop of Raiwind in Pakistan.^[1] He is currently the director of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue.

In 2021, he was received into the Catholic Church and was ordained as a priest for the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham on 30 October 2021,^[2] one of several Anglican bishops who converted to Catholicism that year.

In 2022, he was made a [[monsignor] and Prelate of honour to the Holy See. He is a dual citizen of Pakistan and Britain.

Background

Michael Nazir-Ali was born in Karachi, Pakistan, on 19 August 1949, the son of James and Patience Nazir-Ali.^[3] He has both a Christian and a Muslim family background – his father's f