11 Notable alumni of
Heythrop College
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Heythrop College is 2619th in the world, 838th in Europe, and 128th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 11 notable alumni from Heythrop College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Sebastian Gorka
- Enrolled in Heythrop College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- political adviserpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Sebastian Lukács Gorka is a media host and commentator, currently affiliated with Salem Radio Network and NewsMax TV, and a United States government official. He served in the first Trump administration as a deputy assistant to the president for seven months, from January until August 2017. In the second Trump administration, he has served as a deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism since January 2025.
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Sarah Mullally
- Occupations
- theologianAnglican bishopnurse
- Biography
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Dame Sarah Elisabeth Mullally is an Anglican bishop and former nurse who has served as the 106th archbishop of Canterbury since 28 January 2026. As archbishop, she is the leader of the Church of England and ceremonial head of the Anglican Communion. By virtue of her office she is also a lord spiritual, one of the 26 Church of England bishops who sit in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Frederick Copleston
- Occupations
- Catholic priestphilosopherwriterhistorian
- Biography
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Frederick Charles Copleston SJ CBE FBA was a British Catholic priest, philosopher, and historian of philosophy, best known for his influential multi-volume A History of Philosophy (1946–75).
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Bernard Lonergan
- Occupations
- university teachertheologianphilosopher
- Biography
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Bernard Joseph Francis Lonergan SJ CC was a Canadian Jesuit priest, philosopher, and theologian regarded by many as one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century.
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Robert Hannigan
- Biography
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Robert Peter Hannigan CMG is a cybersecurity specialist who has been Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, since 2021. He was a senior British civil servant who previously served as the director of the signals intelligence and cryptography agency the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and established the UK's National Cyber Security Centre.
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Gerald O'Collins
- Occupations
- theologianpriestphilosopher
- Biography
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Gerald Glynn O'Collins SJ AC was an Australian Jesuit priest and academic. He was a research professor and writer-in-residence at the Jesuit Theological College (JTC) in Parkville, Victoria, and a research professor in theology at St Mary's University College in Twickenham. For more than three decades, he was professor of systematic and fundamental theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome).
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Lindsay Urwin
- Years
- 1956-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- Anglican priest
- Biography
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Lindsay Goodall Urwin OGS is an Australian Anglican bishop. Urwin was the area Bishop of Horsham in the Diocese of Chichester, in southern England, from 1993 to 2009, and was also the principal organiser of the annual Caister Conference. He was the administrator of the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham from 2009 to 2015. On 12 April 2015, his appointment was announced as vicar of Christ Church Brunswick in the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, Australia; he was inducted on 15 September 2015. He retired in 2023, and returned to the United Kingdom and the Church of England.
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Polycarpus Augin (Eugene) Aydin
- Occupations
- Eastern Orthodox priest
- Biography
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Polycarpus Augin Aydın, is the Metropolitan and Patriarchal Vicar for the Archdiocese of the Netherlands of the Syriac Orthodox Church. The Metropolitan Seat is located at St. Ephrem the Syrian Monastery in Glane/Losser, the Netherlands.
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Catherine Pepinster
- Years
- 1959-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Catherine Marie Pepinster is an English editor, historian, commentator and writer with a focus on theology, Catholic and Anglican ecumenism, church history, and religion and politics. She was the first female editor of The Tablet in the newspaper's 176-year history. In 2017 she published the book The Keys and the Kingdom: The British and the Papacy from John Paul II to Francis.
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Stephen Joseph Perry
- Occupations
- astrophysicistastronomer
- Biography
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Stephen Joseph Perry SJ FRS was an English Jesuit and astronomer, known as a participant in scientific expeditions.
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Keith Riglin
- Years
- 1957-2023 (aged 66)
- Occupations
- Anglican bishopAnglican priest
- Biography
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Keith Graham Riglin was an Anglican bishop in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Having ministered from 1983 within Baptist and Reformed churches, he took holy orders in the Church of England in 2008. In January 2021 he was elected Bishop of Argyll and The Isles, a post he held until his death in 2023.
