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On 1 July, at a ceremony held at Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury awarded the Lambeth degree of Doctor of Music to Bill Ives ‘in recognition of his significant contribution to church music, particularly as a composer and as Organist and Informator Choristarum at Magdalen College Oxford’.
The Archbishop of Canterbury's right to grant degrees is derived from Peter's Pence Act of 1533 which empowered the Archbishop to grant dispensations previously granted by the Pope. The practice began during the time when attendance at Oxford and Cambridge, the only universities at that time in England, was frequently disrupted by the difficulty of travel or outbreaks of the plague. The Archbishop was empowered to grant exemption from the residential requirements necessary for a degree.
Lambeth degrees can be awarded in Divinity, Law, Arts, Literature, Medicine and Music.
Bill Ives Awarded Lambeth Degree
On 1 July, at a ceremony held at Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury awarded the Lambeth degree of Doctor of Music to Bill Ives ‘in recognition of his significant contribution to church music, particularly as a composer and as Organist and Informator Choristarum at Magdalen College Oxford’.The Archbishop of Canterbury's right to grant degrees is derived from Peter's Pence Act of 1533 which empowered the Archbishop to grant dispensations previously granted by the Pope. The practice began during the time when attendance at Oxford and Cambridge, the only universities at that time in England, was frequently disrupted by the difficulty of travel or outbreaks of the plague. The Archbishop was empowered to grant exemption from the residential requirements necessary for a degree.
Lambeth degrees can be awarded in Divinity, Law, Arts, Literature, Medicine and Music.