The Reverend Father James Kelsey McConica, OC, FBA,

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, FRSC (born 1930) is a Canadian Roman Catholic priest (

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), academic, and academic administrator. He was President and Vice-Chancellor of the

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, Toronto from 1984 to 1990 and President of the

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from 1996 to 2008. He is also a fellow of

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, the first Roman Catholic priest to be a fellow since the

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References

* https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-6622 * https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/revd-dr-james-mcconica * https://ourspace.uregina.ca/bitstream/handle/10294/3068/Third_Degree_2006-Spring.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y {{DEFAULTSORT:McConica, James Kelsey 1930 births Officers of the Order of Canada Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Congregation of St. Basil University of Toronto faculty Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford University of Saskatchewan faculty York University faculty Intellectual historians Canadian medievalists 20th-century Canadian historians 21st-century Canadian historians Canadian academic administrators Canadian university and college chief executives Canadian Rhodes Scholars Alumni of the University of Oxford Princeton University alumni University of Toronto alumni Living people