Given the question: Facts: - residence: cambridge blackfriars - alt: aidan nichols -lrb- 2014 -rrb- - type: priest - caption: aidan nichols -lrb- 2014 -rrb- - birth date: 17 september 1948 - name: john christopher '' aidan '' nichols - nationality: british - image: aidannichols.jpg - birth place: lytham st annes - religion: catholic -lrb- roman rite -rrb- - alma mater: christ edinburgh pontifical university of saint thomas aquinas church , oxford blackfriars , oxford university of - occupation: priest , academic , theologian Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of aidan nichols .
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john christopher '' aidan '' nichols o.p. , s.t.m. -lrb- born 17 september 1948 -rrb- is an english academic and catholic priest .nichols served as the first john paul ii memorial visiting lecturer at the university of oxford for 2006 to 2008 , the first lectureship of catholic theology at that university since the reformation .he is a member of the order of preachers -lrb- dominicans -rrb- and is the prior of st michael the archangel in cambridge .