Prof. Gerard Kelly
Lecturer & Theology Discipline Coordinator (Catholic Institute of Sydney)
STB (CIS, 1980), STL (CIS, 1986), PhD (Collège universitaire dominicain d’Ottawa, 1992), STD (Collège universitaire dominicain d’Ottawa, 1996)
Professor Gerard Kelly is a priest of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney. He joined the academic staff at the Catholic Institute of Sydney in 1986 and taught until 1988. After study leave, he returned to CIS at the beginning of the 1993 academic year and has taught there continuously since then. From 2004 until the end of 2017, he was President (principal) at CIS. In addition to teaching course units at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, he has supervised research degrees in systematic theology. For over twenty years he has been the editor of the Australasian Catholic Record.
Prof Kelly’s research interests in ecumenism have seen him involved in theological dialogue. He currently is the Catholic co-chair of the Australian Lutheran–Roman Catholic Dialogue; he chairs the Faith and Unity Commission of the National Council of Churches in Australia; and is a member of the Methodist–Roman Catholic International Commission.