Editing Regius Professor of Divinity (section)

==Professors at Cambridge==
* [[Edward Wigan]], alias Guy (1540)<ref>{{acad|WGN508E|Wigan, Edward}}</ref>
* [[John Madew]] (c.1545)<ref>{{acad|MDW529J|Madew, John}}</ref>
* [[Martin Bucer]] (1550)<ref>{{acad|BCR550M|Bucer, Martin}}</ref>
** In 1553 Archbishop [[Thomas Cranmer]] offered the Regius Chair to [[Philip Melanchthon]], who declined the offer 
* [[John Young (professor)|John Young]] (1555)<ref>{{acad|YN535J|Young, John}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Sedgwick]] (1557)<ref>{{acad|SGWK529T|Sedgwick, Thomas}}</ref>
* [[James Pilkington (bishop)|James Pilkington]] (1559)<ref>{{acad|PLKN538J|Pilkington, James}}</ref>
* [[Leonard Pilkington]] (1561)<ref>{{acad|PLKN544L|Pilkington, Leonard}}</ref>
* [[Matthew Hutton (Archbishop of York)|Matthew Hutton]] (1562)<ref>{{acad|HTN546M|Hutton, Matthew}}</ref>
* [[John Whitgift]] (1567)<ref>{{acad|WHTT550J|Whitgift, John}}</ref>
* [[William Chaderton]] (1569)<ref>{{acad|CHDN555W|Chaderton, William}}</ref>
* [[William Whitaker (theologian)|William Whitaker]] (1580)<ref>{{acad|WHTR564W|Whitaker, William}}</ref>
* [[John Overall (bishop)|John Overall]] (1596)
* [[John Richardson (translator)|John Richardson]] (1607)<ref>{{cite DNB |wstitle= Richardson, John (d.1625) |last= Cooper |first=Thompson |author-link= Thompson Cooper |volume= 48 |pages= 227-228 |short=1}}</ref>
* [[Samuel Collins (theologian)|Samuel Collins]] (1617)
* [[John Arrowsmith (scholar)|John Arrowsmith]] (1651)
* [[Anthony Tuckney]] (1656)
* [[Peter Gunning]] (1661)
* [[Joseph Beaumont]] (1674)
* [[Henry James (Regius Professor)|Henry James]] (1700)
* [[Richard Bentley]] (1717)
* [[John Whalley (theologian)|John Whalley]] (1742)
* [[John Green (bishop)|John Green]] (?)
* [[Thomas Rutherforth]] (1745)
* [[Richard Watson (bishop)|Richard Watson]] (1771)
* [[John Kaye (English bishop)|John Kaye]] (1816)
* [[Thomas Turton]] (1827)
* [[Alfred Ollivant (bishop)|Alfred Ollivant]] (1843)
* [[James Amiraux Jeremie]] (1850)
* [[Brooke Foss Westcott]] (1870)
* [[Henry Barclay Swete]] (1890)
* [[Vincent Henry Stanton]] (1916)
* [[Alexander Nairne]] (1922)
* [[Charles Earle Raven]] (1932)
* [[Arthur Michael Ramsey]] (1950)<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=40002|title=Ramsey, (Arthur) Michael, Baron Ramsey of Canterbury}}</ref>
* [[John Burnaby]] (1952)
* [[Edward Craddock Ratcliffe]] (1958)
* [[Dennis Eric Nineham]] (1964)<ref>{{cite news |last=Harvey |first=Anthony |date=27 May 2016 |title=The Revd Professor Dennis Eric Nineham |url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2016/27-may/gazette/obituaries/the-revd-professor-dennis-eric-nineham |department=Obituary |newspaper=[[Church Times]] |publication-place=London |access-date=10 September 2019}}</ref>
* [[Geoffrey Hugo Lampe]] (1971)
* [[Henry Chadwick (theologian)|Henry Chadwick]] (1979)<ref>{{cite news |last=Williams |first=Rowan |author-link=Rowan Williams |date=19 June 2008 |title=Henry Chadwick |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/19/religion |department=Obituary |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |publication-place=London |access-date=10 September 2019}}</ref>
* [[Stephen Sykes]] (1985)<ref>{{cite news |last=Thompson |first=David |date=24 October 2014 |title=The Rt Revd Stephen Whitefield Sykes |url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2014/24-october/gazette/obituaries/obituary-the-rt-revd-stephen-whitefield-sykes |department=Obituary |newspaper=[[Church Times]] |publication-place=London |access-date=10 September 2019}}</ref>
* [[David F. Ford|David Frank Ford]] (1991)
* [[Ian Alexander McFarland]] (2015)<ref>{{cite journal |title=Elections, appointments, reappointments, and grants of title |url=https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2014-15/weekly/6382/section2.shtml#heading2-9 |journal=[[Cambridge University Reporter]] |issue=6382 |date=15 April 2015 |page=454 |access-date=5 September 2019}}</ref>
* [[David Fergusson (theologian)|David Fergusson]] (2021)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-david-fergusson-obe-ma-bd-dphil-dd-fba-frse|title=Professor David Fergusson OBE, DD, FRSE, FBA|date=24 March 2021}}</ref>

===Official coat of arms===
According to a grant of 1590, the office of Regius Professor of "Devinity" at Cambridge has a [[coat of arms]] with the following [[blazon]]:<ref>''A Complete Guide to Heraldry'' by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (1909), pp. 587-588.</ref>

{{Infobox COA wide
 |image      = Regius Professor Divinity (Cantab).svg
 |escutcheon = Gules, on a cross ermine, between four doves argent, a book of the first, the leaves or, charged in the midst with the Greek letter θ (Theta) sable.
 |crest      = On a wreath "silver and gules," a dove volant argent, with an olive-branch vert in his beak.
 |mantling   = Gules, double argent.
|}}