Academic Staff

Dr Cristina Lledo Gomez is Senior Lecturer in Theology and holds the Presentation Sisters Chair at BBI-The Australian Institute of Theological Education (TAITE). Her role at BBI-TAITE is promoting women’s spiritualities, feminist theologies, and ecotheologies. Cristina is also a Research Fellow for the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture at Charles Sturt University.

Cristina is the author of the Church as Woman and Mother (2018) and co-editor of 500 Years of Christianity and the Global Filipino/a: Postcolonial Perspectives with Agnes Brazal and Marilou Ibita (2024). In 2020 she was the recipient of the Catherine Mowry Lacugna Award for her essay “Mother Language, Mother Church, Mother Earth”, awarded by the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA). In 2015-16 she was the International Research Fellow at Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry.

Cristina was the first lay Chair of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council (2019 – 2020) and Chair of the Committee for Underrepresented Ethnic Groups (2018-2021) at the CTSA. Currently, she is Co-Chair of the Women’s Consultation for Constructive Theology at the CTSA (since 2022), and Board Member for the Ecclesiological Investigations Network (EIN) (since 2019) and College Theology Society (since 2022). Cristina is also co-chair of the EIN sessions at the American Academy of Religion (since 2023).

Cristina obtained her Master of Theology at the Sydney College of Divinity (Catholic Institute of Sydney) and her PhD in Theology at Charles Sturt University, Australia (2015).