Reverend Gloria Shipp | |
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Born | 1948 |
Nationality | Kamilaroi |
Citizenship | Australia |
Alma mater | Nungalinya College, Darwin |
Years active | 1994- |
Known for | Walkabout Ministries
First Aboriginal woman Anglican priest First woman chair of National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Anglican Council |
Gloria Shipp (born 1948) is an Anglican priest, the first Aboriginal woman ordained as deacon[1] and then as priest in the Anglican Church of Australia[2][3] and the first woman elected Chair of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Anglican Council.[4] She is of the Gamilaroi/Kamilaroi nation and lives on Wiradjuri country.[5] Shipp founded Walkabout Ministries as an accessible, culturally sensitive church that embraces Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.[6]