Michael Nazir-Ali

Michael James Nazir-Ali is a Pakistani-born British Roman Catholic priest and former Anglican bishop. He served as the 106th Bishop of Rochester from 1994 to 2009 and, before that, as Bishop of Raiwind in Pakistan. He is currently the director of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue. In 2021, he was received into the Catholic Church and was ordained as a priest for the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham on 30 October 2021, one of several Anglican bishops who converted to Catholicism that year. In 2022, he was made a monsignor. He is a dual citizen of Pakistan and Britain.

19 August 1949

Born on the same birth day (19 August): Anthony Muñoz • Banharn Silpa-archa • David Rittich • Dawn Steel • Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia • Frank McCourt • Ginger Baker • James Gould Cozzens • Jun Jin • Kyra Sedgwick • Patrick Chung • Richard Ingrams • Salamone Rossi • Willard Boyle

Born in the same month (August 1949): Ann Murray • Bertalan Farkas • Darnell Hillman • Hugh David Politzer • Morten Olsen • Panagiotis Chinofotis • Philip Casnoff • Ted Ammon • Terry Burnham • Tim Hutchinson