80. Colleen O’Reilly AM - 18 September 2022

Twenty-fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time - Luke 16: 1-13

Unfinished Business: It’s thirty years since Anglican women were first ordained as priests in Australia. Australian Women Preach celebrates this anniversary, while acknowledging there are still Anglican dioceses and other Christian denominations that limit or refuse to acknowledge women’s ordained ministry.

The Reverend Canon Emerita Dr Colleen O’Reilly AM is an Anglican priest in the Diocese of Melbourne, having been ordained in 1995. She has been Vicar of two parishes and Chaplain to Trinity College in the University of Melbourne. She remains in parish ministry as a locum priest.

Originally from Sydney, Colleen has been a lifelong Anglican despite her Irish name. She holds the degree of Bachelor of Theology from the Sydney College of Divinity, of which she is a past Dean of Postgraduate Studies and a Founding Fellow. Her master’s degree in theology is from the University of Sydney and her Doctor of Ministry degree from the San Francisco School of Theology. College taught Liturgical and Pastoral Theology at the United College of Theology from 1987-1993 before being appointed Associate Dean and Director of Ministry Studies in the then Melbourne College of Divinity, now the University of Divinity.

Colleen has two sons and three grandsons, has been married to the Reverend Walter McEntee since 1989 and enjoys the company of colleagues and friends as well as an engrossing novel and a glass of red.