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2 unusual facts about Doctor of Divinity


Charles William Schaeffer

He held high office in the councils of his church, and had been one of the trustees of the University of Pennsylvania since 1859, receiving from it the degree of D.D. in 1879.

Nicholas Quemerford

Repairing to the University of Louvain, he was promoted to the degree of DD on 23 June or October 1575, on which occasion his fellow-countryman, Peter Lombard, who that year was "primus in schola artium", wrote "Carmen Heroicum in Doctoratum Nicolai Quemerfordi".


David Frederick Schaeffer

In 1836 he received the degree of D.D. from St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland.

Diosdado Talamayan

Diosdado Aenlle Talamayan, D.D., Ph.D., S.T.D. (Born October 19, 1932) is the Archbishop-emeritus of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tuguegarao in the province of Cagayan, on the island of Luzon, Philippines after his retirement on June 15, 2011.

George Barker Stevens

Illinois College awarded him a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1902, and the University of Rochester awarded him a Doctorate in Law the same year.

Maurice Jones

Born at Trawsfynydd, Meirionnydd, Jones he was educated at the local school, then, with scholarships, proceeded to Friars School, Bangor and Christ College, Brecon, and then Jesus College, Oxford, where he gained a first class degree in divinity in 1886, an MA and BD in 1907 and a DD in 1914.

Paul Tan Chee Ing

Rt. Rev. Monsignor Paul Tan Chee Ing, (April 5, 1940 –) S.J., D.D., S.T.L. is second and current Roman Catholic Bishop of Diocese of Malacca-Johor.

Prendergast Hilly Fields College

Prendergast Grammar School was founded as a fee-paying grammar school in Rushey Green, Catford in 1890 under the will of the late Dr. Joseph Prendergast, DD (Cantab), 1791–1875, Headmaster of Colfe's School 1831-1857.

Richard Fiddes

His best book is a Life of Cardinal Wolsey (London, 1724), containing documents which are still valuable for reference; of his other writings the Prefatory Epistle containing some remarks to be published on Homer's Iliad (London, 1714), was occasioned by Alexander Pope's proposed translation of the Iliad, and his Theologia speculativa (London, 1718), earned him the degree of D.D. at Oxford.

Robert Crosthwaite

Robert Jarratt Crosthwaite, DD (13 October 1837, Wellington, Somerset – 9 September 1925, Bolton Percy) was the inaugural Bishop of Beverley in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Robinson Duckworth

The Reverend Robinson Duckworth DD, CVO, VD, (4 December 1834 – 20 September 1911) was present in the original boating expedition of 4 July 1862 during which Alice's Adventures were first told by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson).

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hobart

St Mary's Cathedral is the seat of the Catholic Archbishop of Hobart, currently Adrian Leo Doyle, AM DD.

Samuel Finley

The Rev. Samuel Finley (1763 DD University of Glasgow (honorary); July 2, 1715 – July 17, 1766), Evangelical (Presbyterian, "New Light") preacher and academic, he founded the West Nottingham Academy, and was the fifth president and an original trustee of the College of New Jersey (later known as Princeton University) from 1761 until 1766.

Savings and loan association

In the United Kingdom, the first savings bank was founded in 1810 by the Reverend Henry Duncan, Doctor of Divinity, the minister of Ruthwell Church in the Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

Sterling Lands II

He is a graduate of the Southern University School of Engineering, with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, and a Doctor of Divinity degree from Master's International School of Divinity.

Vicar Apostolic of the London District

It was only in 1685 that a successor was appointed by Rome, in the person of John Leyburn, a Doctor of Divinity of the Sorbonne and a former President of the English College at Douai, who was consecrated bishop in Rome on 9 September 1685.

William L. Stevens

Bishop Stevens was the recipient of two honorary doctorates in 1981; a Doctor of Divinity from General Theological Seminary and Doctor of Canon Law from Nashotah House.


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Bernhard Rosenberg

Jewish Theological Seminary presented him with his DD in May 2010.He also holds a Doctor of Divinity degree from The Jewish Theological Seminary of New York.

Christopher Bagshaw

On leaving Rome he returned to Paris, where he became a doctor of divinity at the Sorbonne.

Francis Aveling

Aveling went to school at Bishop Ridley College in Ontario, before studying at McGill University in Quebec, Keble College in Oxford, England, and the Canadian College in Rome where he obtain a Doctor of Divinity qualification.

Joseph Fort Newton

Newton held the honorary degrees of Doctor of Hebrew Literature (Coe College, 1912), Doctor of Divinity (Tufts University, 1919), Doctor of Humane Letters (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1926), and Doctor of Laws (Temple University, 1929).

Lionel Blue

He is also honorary doctor of Divinity and Fellow of Grey College, Durham.

Oswald Hoffmann

In addition, he held an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Concordia Seminary, an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana, and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Philippine Christian University in Manila, The Philippines.

Paul Crouch

Crouch also received three honorary doctorates: a Doctor of Litterarum (D.Litt) on May 29, 1981, from the California Graduate School of Theology, Glendale, California; a Doctor of Divinity on May 29, 1983, from the American Christian Theological Seminary, Anaheim, California; and a Doctor of Laws degree on May 5, 1985, from Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Sitembele Mzamane

In 2013 he received a Honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree, jure dignitatis from Huron University College.