13 Facts About Geoffrey Wainwright

Geoffrey Wainwright spent much of his career in the United States and taught at Duke Divinity School.

Geoffrey Wainwright received his university education in Cambridge, Geneva, and Rome.

Geoffrey Wainwright served as a circuit minister in Liverpool and then as a missionary teacher and pastor in Cameroon, West Africa.

Geoffrey Wainwright taught at Duke Divinity School from 1983 to his retirement in 2012, a part of Duke University in North Carolina, where he occupied the Robert Earl Cushman chair of Christian Theology.

Geoffrey Wainwright held visiting professorships at the University of Notre Dame, the Gregorian and Angelicum universities in Rome and the United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne, Australia.

From 1976 to 1991, Geoffrey Wainwright was a member of the WCC Faith and Order and chaired the final redaction of the Lima text on Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry.

Geoffrey Wainwright served as president of the international Societas Liturgica as well as of the American Theological Society.

Geoffrey Wainwright was honoured by the publication of Ecumenical Theology in Worship, Doctrine, and Life: Essays Presented to Geoffrey Wainwright on his Sixtieth Birthday.

Geoffrey Wainwright was awarded the 2005 Johannes Quasten Medal by the Catholic University of America for "excellence in theological scholarship".

In 2005, Geoffrey Wainwright said that he was delighted at the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as bishop of Rome.

Geoffrey Wainwright called the new Pope a first-rate theologian with a subtle and penetrating mind.

Geoffrey Wainwright retired from Duke in 2012 and continued to make scholarly contributions in his retirement.

Geoffrey Wainwright delivered a paper on "The Second Vatican Council: The Legacy from a Methodist Perspective" at the annual conference of the North American Academy of Ecumenists in Halifax in September 2012.