Gerard Mannion

Gerard Mannion is the Joseph and Winifred Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies in the Department of Theology at Georgetown University, where he is also a Senior Research Fellow of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, Co-Director of the Church and World Program and heads the 'Church and the Ecumenical Future' project. He was educated at King’s College, Cambridge University and New College, Oxford University (where he took his DPhil. in Theology and Philosophy).

Founding Chair of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network (www.ei-research.net), editor of the Series, ‘Ecclesiological Investigations’ and co-editor (with Oxford's Mark Chapman) of the series 'Pathways for Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue', his academic career has taken in posts in the UK (Oxford, Leeds, Liverpool), Leuven (Belgium) and San Diego, where he was Professor of Theology and Director of the Center for Catholic Thought and Culture. He also served a full six-year term as founding co-chair of the Ecclesiology Program Unit of the American Academy of Religion and continues to serve on the Steering Committees of both the AAR’s Ecclesiology and Vatican II Studies Program Units. In 2014 he was elected to membership of the American Theological Society.

An Irish citizen, passionate about social justice, rugby union and music, he has authored, co-authored and edited some sixteen books and numerous articles and chapters elsewhere in the fields of ecclesiology, ethics and public theology, as well as in other aspects of systematic theology and philosophy.

Presently an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Catholic University, Gerard has also held Visiting Professorships at the University of Tübingen (Germany), the Dominican Institute of Theology/St Michael’s College, University of Toronto (Canada) and Chichester University (UK). He was Senior Research Fellow in Public Theology at the Centro per le Scienze Religiose of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy, 2009), a 2004 Coolidge Fellow at Union Theological Seminary/Columbia University (New York City) and a selected participant in the program on ‘Teaching the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project’ at the Ethics Institute, Dartmouth College in 2003.

Gerard has also served as an adviser to various NGOs and charities including as a theological adviser to the Theological Reference Group of CAFOD (Caritas UK) and as a member of the Social Justice Commission, the Religious Studies Board of the UK Bishops’ Conference, the committee of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain, the Queen’s Foundation Working Party on Authority and Governance in the Roman Catholic Church for its duration from 1996-2001 and of the International Assessment Board of the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences. A member of the Administrative Committee of the Catholic Social Thought Topic Session of the Catholic Theological Society of America, he also serves on the Editorial Boards of Ecclesiology and of Ecclesial Practices: the Journal of Ecclesiology, Ethnography and Congregational Studies.

Gerard was chair of the organizing committee of 'Assisi 2012: Pathways for Dialogue in the 21st Century', an ecumenical and interfaith gathering which brought together over 250 participants from 55 different countries in the city of Assisi, Italy to explore 'Thinking Outside the Ecumenical Box' for our times.(www.assisi2012.ei-research.net) and of 'Vatican II: Remembering the Future: Ecumenical, Interfaith and Secular Perspectives on the Council's Future and Promise', Georgetown University, the National Cathedral and Marymount University, May 21-24 2015 http://dc2015.ei-research.net/