A former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland said he was ‘literally speechless’ when told that he was to be knighted in the New Year Honours list.
The Very Rev Professor Iain Torrance was honoured for services to higher education and theology.
An internationally-renowned academic, Professor Torrance has been the pro Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen since 2013, prior to which he was president of Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey, USA.