Raymond Pelly

After a childhood in wartime London, Raymond was educated at Rugby School, had two years Army Service in Cyprus and went on to study Theology at Oxford University. He was ordained an Anglican Priest in Newcastle in 1963. He then did his Doctoral Studies in Geneva.

He has taught at Westcott House, Cambridge, was warden of St. John's College, Auckland and spent three years teaching at the University of Massachusetts. Since 1990, Raymond has been living in Wellington, New Zealand and has been Anglican Chaplain at Victoria University of Wellington, Resident Theologian at St.Peter's, Willis Street, and is now Priest Associate at Wellington Cathedral.

Raymond has been involved with the Peace Movement in New Zealand and protests against the 1981 Springbok Tour. As a priest, Raymond offers counseling and spiritual direction. As a theologian he has a longstanding interest in Holocaust studies and has visited several Holocaust-related sites in Germany and Eastern Europe.

He is currently writing a book entitled Pilgrim to Unholy Places which, among other things, looks to recover a sense of the sacred for a de-sacralised world. He is married and father to six children.

With Peter Stuart, he is the editor of A Religious Atheist? Critical Essays on the Work of Lloyd Geering (Otago University Press, 2006).