Like Oboma the constitutional scholar? Or maybe Dolan with his degree of Licentiate of Sacred Theology? How about all those "eminent scholars" who now ordain women? You want eminent scholars? I'll take Christ and His lowly fisherman.
Surely, you wouldn’t compare the pre-eminent Lutheran scholar of his times, historian, author and teacher who not only converted to Catholicism but became a catholic priest to the “scholars you reference.