Department of Church History

She teaches in and coordinates the unit:

• CH101 The Early Church and the Christian East

Clara Geoghegan holds a Bachelor of Arts from Monash University, a Bachelor of Theology from Melbourne College of Divinity, and a Graduate Diploma of Education from Australian Catholic University. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Australian Church History, researching the history of the Diocese of Sandhurst from 1852 to 1901 at Australian Catholic University. She also co-ordinates the “Gifted and Called” Workshops on behalf of the Catherine of Siena Institute (Australia) and the Archbishop’s Office for Evangelisation.

Her main academic interest is Australian Church History, and she has published “Caroline Chisholm and the Polemics of Sainthood” in God, the Devil and a Millennium of Christian Culture (2004).

email: cgeoghegan@ctc.edu.au