BA (Monash) BTheol (MCD) GradDipEd (ACU) 

Department of Church History
Department of Pastoral and General Studies

Mrs Clara Geoghegan is a member of the Department of Church History and the Department of Pastoral and General Studies, and lectures in Early Church History, and Medieval Mysticism.

The undergraduate units she teaches include:

The postgraduate units she teaches include:

• CH350 Introduction to Church History:
  Early Church, Middle Ages and Reformation [Early Church]
• CH340 Byzantium (10 points)
• DS327 Women Mystics of the Middle Ages

Clara Geoghegan holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (Monash University), Bachelor of Theology (Melbourne College of Divinity), and Graduate Diploma of Education (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).

Contact: Email Clara Geoghegan