The Rev. Matthew S. C. Olver, PhD, is associate professor of liturgics and pastoral theology at Nashotah House Theological Seminary, where he has taught since 2014. He is the 2022-2023 Alan Richardson Fellow at Durham University, UK. Before moving to Wisconsin, he was for seven years the assistant rector of Church of the Incarnation, Dallas, and undertook his previous studies at Wheaton College and Duke Divinity School and completed his doctoral work at Marquette University with a dissertation on the influence of the Epistle to the Hebrews on the origin and theology of the Roman Canon. He was a member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation in the U.S. (ARC-USA) from 2006 to 2014 and is a regular contributor to TLC’s Covenant blog. His academic work has published in The Journal of Ecumenical Studies, The Anglican Theological Review, Nova et Vetera, Antiphon, Studia Liturgica, Ecclesia Orans, Journal of Anglican Studies, Questions Liturgiques, Studia Patristica, the 4th edition of The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (ed. Andrew Louth), and the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Book of Common Prayer. He is a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas and assists at Zion Episcopal Church, Oconomowoc, WI. Fr. Olver has been married to Kristen since 2001 and they have two children.
