Gloria Shipp

Reverend
Gloria Shipp
Born1948
NationalityKamilaroi
CitizenshipAustralia
Alma materNungalinya College, Darwin
Years active1994-
Known forWalkabout 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]

  1. ^ Wilson, Zandra (21 November 1995). "Bathurst-A lot has happened". Movement for the Ordination of Women: The National Magazine for the Movement for the Ordination of Women: 6, 8 – via JSTOR.
  2. ^ Hayward, Patricia (24 April 1997). "From the President". Movement for the Ordination of Women Newsletter: 3 – via JSTOR.
  3. ^ Bruce, K. (2013). Anglicanism In Australia: A History. Australia: Melbourne University Publishing.p244
  4. ^ "First woman elected Chair of Anglican national indigenous body". Anglican Communion News Service. 8 October 2012.
  5. ^ Rev Gloria Shipp - complete interviews, retrieved 2024-02-28
  6. ^ "Walkabout Ministries (The Reverend Gloria Shipp)". ABM Anglican Board of Mission. Retrieved 2024-02-26.