Hello, I hope someone from Wales (or more knowledgeable than I) can answer this for me. If a man is a Professor of Law at a Welsh University and is also an ordained minister, is it proper (and preferred) to call him "Professor X" when he is preaching? Or should he be called "The Rev." when preaching and "Professor" only when doing law or school things? I'd love a reference I can cite on this, too, if anyone knows of one. Thanks, Mona

I am intrigued by your question as one member of my family in England was a rabbi and is called Rabbi Dr. when other family members refer to him, but I have no idea what they called him in person and will have to ask. I have never seen the two used together when reading articles about him. I asked google the question "what do you call a minister who is also a doctor?" and turned up a lot of interesting wiki pages. You may want to try the same thing, maybe trying Professor instead of doctor, and adding the faith such as Catholic or Methodist. One page I read agreed with my thought that you address the person the way they prefer, I am not sure there is an overriding rule of etiquette. If you are talking about writing about the man, I believe which title you use will depend on the context. On 4/14/11, mona_sydd_yma@yahoo.com <mona_sydd_yma@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I hope someone from Wales (or more knowledgeable than I) can answer this for > me. > > If a man is a Professor of Law at a Welsh University and is also an ordained > minister, is it proper (and preferred) to call him "Professor X" when he is > preaching? Or should he be called "The Rev." when preaching and "Professor" > only when doing law or school things? I'd love a reference I can cite on > this, > too, if anyone knows of one. > > Thanks, > > Mona > -- >

Good question. I do not think one would refer to an ordained minister as 'Professor'. On the other hand if that minister has a doctorate, and one would expect a Professor to have one, I think it is quite proper to address him or her as 'Doctor'. My example here is The Rev William Morris of Noddfa, Treorchy, DD - as well as other qualifications - (Doctor of Divinity) who was often refered to as 'Dr Morris' ----- Original Message ----- From: <mona_sydd_yma@yahoo.com> To: "glam" <GLAMORGAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 12:35 AM Subject: [GLA] Question about titles > Hello, > > I hope someone from Wales (or more knowledgeable than I) can answer this > for me. > > If a man is a Professor of Law at a Welsh University and is also an > ordained > minister, is it proper (and preferred) to call him "Professor X" when he > is > preaching? Or should he be called "The Rev." when preaching and > "Professor" > only when doing law or school things? I'd love a reference I can cite on > this, > too, if anyone knows of one. > > Thanks, > > Mona > -- > > To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com > GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html > - > A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be > found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ > > - > The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and > http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

At the risk of getting shot down, my take on this would be: "Professor" is a job title, not a qualification; so I would call him professor only within the university. He almost certainly has a higher degree, a D Litt, Ph D, DD or suchlike; so is entitled to be called "Doctor". And putting the two together, the Reverend Doctor X sounds right to me. Hugh At 00:35 15/04/2011, mona_sydd_yma@yahoo.com wrote: >Hello, > >I hope someone from Wales (or more knowledgeable than I) can answer >this for me. > >If a man is a Professor of Law at a Welsh University and is also an ordained >minister, is it proper (and preferred) to call him "Professor X" when he is >preaching? Or should he be called "The Rev." when preaching and "Professor" >only when doing law or school things? I'd love a reference I can >cite on this, >too, if anyone knows of one. > >Thanks, > >Mona >-- > >To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com >GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html >- >A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, >may be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ > >- >The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages >http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and >http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message