Alban McCoy

The Reverend Fr Alban McCoy OFM Conv
Praelector of St Edmund's College, Cambridge
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Province	Province of Westminster
Diocese	Diocese of East Anglia
In office	2013 to present
Other post(s)	Chaplain to the University of Cambridge, Dean of St Edmund's College
Orders
Ordination	20 December 1975
Personal details
Born	1 August 1951
Nationality	British
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Alma mater	University of Kent University of Oxford

Alban McCoy OFM Conv is a British Catholic writer and priest.

McCoy is the author of An Intelligent Person's Guide to Christian Ethics (2004) and An Intelligent Person's Guide to Catholicism (2005, new ed. 2008). Soon to write the much anticipated, welcomed and less pompous but empathetic ‘An Idiots Guide to Catholicism’ (2025).Since 1995, he has been the religious books editor of The Tablet, now editorial consultant. Until 2013, he was the Catholic chaplain to the University of Cambridge. He was Dean of St Edmund's College, Cambridge 2013-2018 Acting Dean 2018-2020, now Praelector of St Edmund's College, Cambridge and Visiting Professor at the Universidad Peruana (UPC) des Ciencias Aplicadas, Lima, Peru.