Archbishop John Kersey (Mar Joannes Edmundus) was educated at undergraduate and postgraduate level at the Royal College of Music, London, where he was subsequently a Junior Fellow, and pursued further graduate studies at Christ’s College, Cambridge. His ministerial education culminated in the award of the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 2008 by St Ephrem’s Institute of Eastern Church Studies, Scandinavia, where he received a citation for “his outstanding works on Church history”. On his election as Presiding Bishop of the Apostolic Episcopal Church he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology honoris causa by the Apostolic Episcopal Church (under the degree-awarding powers granted to the Church by the State of New York in 1933) and the degree of Doctor of Letters by the Western Orthodox University, which is a division of the Apostolic Episcopal Church accredited by the Pontificia Accademia Tiberina, Rome. He is a Fellow of the Central School of Religion, USA/UK.
