Aidan Nichols

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The Very Reverend Aidan Nichols OP
Nichols in 2014
Orders
Ordination	7 July 1976
Personal details
Born	(1948-09-17) 17 September 1948 (age 75) Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England
Denomination	Catholic (Latin Church)
Residence	Cambridge Blackfriars
Occupation	Priest, academic, theologian
Alma mater	Christ Church, Oxford Blackfriars, Oxford University of Edinburgh Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas

John Christopher "Aidan" Nichols OP^[1] (born 17 September 1948) is an English academic and Catholic priest.

Nichols served as the first John Paul II Memorial Visiting Lecturer at the University of Oxford for 2006 to 2008, the first lectureship of Catholic theology at that university since the Protestant Reformation. He is a member of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) residing in the Priory of St Michael the Archangel in Cambridge, England.