Michael Coren

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michael Coren
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	Jan 15, 1959(1959-01-15)
Age	65
Birthplace	Walthamstow
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Capricorn

Michael Coren Biography

Michael Coren is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on January 15, 1959 in Walthamstow, United Kingdom. His articles and speeches often include stories of his own personal spiritual journey. Coren’s father was Jewish as was his maternal grandfather, while his maternal grandmother came from a family of Welsh coal miners and converted to Judaism. Coren’s father and uncle were cab drivers. Coren has said that his father’s family left Poland in the 1890s, a few decades before the Holocaust. He said “People have called me an anti-Semite. I thought it quite rich since my father’s family was massacred in the Holocaust”. Michael Coren was profiled on Credo on Vision TV, and said that his father told him he could not attend his son’s wedding in a Catholic church without becoming “physically sick”.

He left Roman Catholicism for evangelical Christianity in the 1990s, after a conversion experience, greatly influenced by Canadian televangelist Terry Winter. In 1991, Coren said in a column for a humour magazine: “The evangelical Christians may be intolerant, small-minded, and repellent, but at least they hold a consistent set of beliefs”. In a 1993 book review he said “Can anyone imagine a detective priest? Regrettably, it is easier to conjure up the image of a priest being questioned by secular detectives over abuse charges.” Also in 1993, he had a falling out with the Catholic Church over an unflattering profile he wrote of Archbishop Aloysius Ambrozic for Toronto Life magazine. The bishop, who had made Coren a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre in October 1992, was quoted using words including “friggin” and “bitch”, and said that the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco was a “conservative Roman Catholic and not a bad fellow”. Coren defended himself, saying “He’s an archbishop and he was vulgar … obviously what thousands of Roman Catholics expected me to do was lie. I still get hate mail about the article.”

In his earlier, satirical Aesthete column in Frank magazine Coren was by his own admission deliberately provocative. In response to a 1994 interview question about AIDS he responded:

In early 2004, he embraced Catholicism again. He cites Thomas More, C. S. Lewis, Ronald Knox and his godfather Lord Longford as spiritual influences, and remains connected to the ecumenical scene in Canada and beyond.

Coren married his wife, Bernadette, in 1987. They have four children. He is a cousin of the late British author and journalist Alan Coren, and is thus related to Alan’s children Victoria Coren Mitchell and Giles Coren.

Michael Coren Net Worth

Michael Coren is one of the richest Author from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michael Coren 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Michael Coren (born 15 January 1959) is a British-Canadian clergyman. He hosted the television talk show The Michael Coren Show on the Crossroads Television System from 1999 to 2011 when he moved to the Sun News Network to host an evening talk show, The Arena with Michael Coren, from 2011 until the channel’s demise in early 2015. He has also been a long-time radio personality, particularly on Toronto talk radio station CFRB.

Coren was born in Walthamstow, Essex, England, of Jewish heritage, and raised secular. After obtaining a degree in politics from the University of Nottingham, he moved from Britain to Canada in 1987. For several years, he was a columnist for Frank and then The Globe and Mail, before he began syndicated columns for the Financial Post and Sun Media in 1995. Following his departure from Frank, he became a favourite target of that publication, culminating in a spoof ad contest to “deflower” Michael Coren (a nod to Frank’s notorious “Deflower Caroline Mulroney” contest, and a satirical jab at Coren’s conservative leanings.) Coren had also been a favourite target of Frank back in the days before he began writing for them. Coren took exception to being labelled a “literary prostitute” during a 1994 interview.

His career as a broadcaster began in the early 1990s when he co-hosted a political debate segment with Irshad Manji on TVOntario’s Studio 2. In 1995, he began an evening talk show on CFRB. In 1999, Coren briefly moved to Talk 640 for a short stint as its morning man. He returned to CFRB, where he hosted a show from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. weekday nights, and regularly filled in for other hosts until November 2005. Coren was dismissed by CFRB as a result of complaints arising from comments ridiculing the weight of an apparent guest. In fact, the guest was an actor and the segment was scripted. According to CFRB’s Operations Manager, Steve Kowch, “Pat Holiday, our general manager and myself went through the tape of Monday night’s show and were shocked … it was totally out of bounds.” Coren argues that it was a satire comparing in his mind public attitude to third world starvation with North America’s obsession with slimming and self-indulgence.

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Who is Michael Coren Dating?

According to our records, Michael Coren married to Bernadette Barber. As of December 1, 2023, Michael Coren’s is not dating anyone.

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On television, Coren hosted the Michael Coren Show on the Crossroads Television System until June 2011 when he left to join the Sun News Network where he hosted The Arena with Michael Coren weeknights beginning 30 August

2011. Coren also had a newspaper column published every Saturday in the Sun newspaper chain until February 2015. He has been a columnist for the Western Standard, Catholic Insight and The Women’s Post and has contributed to National Post, Reader’s Digest and several other publications. A self- professed Tottenham Hotspur fan, he has appeared as a guest host on The Score’s The Footy Show.

Facts & Trivia

Michael Ranked on the list of most popular Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Michael Coren celebrates birthday on January 15 of every year.

In 2014 Coren suggested that certain anti-Israel Jews who were at a pro- Palestinian rally in Toronto appeared to be mentally handicapped.

What happened to Michael Coren?

Coren is currently a columnist for the Toronto Star and iPolitics. He has written more than ten books, including biographies of G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.

How old is Michael Coren?

63 years (January 15, 1959)

Why did Michael Coren leave the Catholic Church?

Coren shared the backstory to “ his change of heart and mind ,” which led him to abandon Catholicism and embrace the Anglican Church. He described that journey in a book called Epiphany: A Christian’s Change of Heart & Mind Over Same-Sex Marriage.

Is Victoria Coren Mitchell related to Giles?

Giles Coren
Children| 2
Parent(s)| Alan Coren Anne Kasriel
Relatives| Victoria Coren Mitchell (sister) Michael Coren (cousin)

Who is Victoria Coren brother?

Giles Coren