I have the following sentence to translate for class.

```

    岩田先生は、
    退職なさるまで
    全世界で貝の化石の御研究をされていて
    雑誌などに記事をお書きになられたり
    テレビで放送された教育番組にも出られた
    
```

So far I have the following.

```

    Professor Iwata
    until he honorably retires
    is honorably researching bivalve fossils throughout the whole world and
    honorably wrote? articles for magazines etc 
    also honorably appeared on the educational program that was broadcasted on TV
    
```

I am having an issue with the `お書きになられたり`.

First, it seems to be either doubling up the honorifics (normal?) or using the
passive and I am not sure why.

And then there is the `り` part. I know the `たりたりする` structure for "doing
things like ... and ...". But the rest of the necessary structure doesn't
appear to be there.

Can anyone explain what it is saying?
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What is wrong with お書きになられたり?
~~In modern Japanese~~ , honorific verbs are not further conjugated into
involitional action*（自発）, passive or potential. If any, it's double honorific.
So is your example.

Double honorific is often reputed wrong, but actually it had been used for
centuries and is still used today. Some people (with a certain political view)
started to insist we should no longer use it after WW2.

  * In theory, involitional action, passive and potential could connect to honorific conjugations but people no longer use it today. Many people will consider it even a grammatical error.

(* examples of involitional action: 泣けた・泣けてきた： burst into tears)
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