Australian Women in Religion Archive

The women listed below are included in the Australian Women in Religion Project list and have had a new Wikipedia page created since this project commenced in 2020. Many other women on the list have had their Wikipedia pages updated and improved. Our goal was to create at least 100 new Wikipedia pages in 2021 and to reach 200 new articles in 2022.

Wikipedia has a grading scale for articles. Most articles that this project will deal with will be in the range Stub - Start - C-class - B-class. The articles highlighted as C or B-class in the list below are therefore examples of high quality articles.

DYK refers to that article also appearing on Wikipedia's main page in the Did You Know? section.

1. Magdalene (newsletter) - Australian Christian feminist magazine (1973-1987) - New in 2022
2. Women-Church journal - Australian feminist theology journal (1987-2007) - New in 2022
3. Alice Mofflin - Australian philanthropist and Methodist lay leader - New in 2022
4. Alphia Possamai-Inesedy -  Sociology of religion academic
5. Angela Coco - Sociologist and academic - New in 2022
6. Anna Halafoff - Sociologist and academic - C-class article
7. Anne Daly - Mother Mary Berchmans, superior general of the Sisters of Charity
8. Anne Elvey - Australian academic and poet
9. Anne Pattel-Gray - an Aboriginal Australian theologian and author - C-class article
10. Anne Philomena O'Brien - historian, author and professor at the University of New South Wales
11. Annie Bright - Australian journalist and spiritualist
12. Annie Lynch - religious sister and nurse who was the first provincial of the Little Company of Mary in Australasia - B-class article
13. Annie Mackenzie Golding - teacher, suffragette and feminist activist
14. Ayya Nirodha - Australian Buddhist nun
15. Barbara Bell - Catholic educationalist and later a religious sister
16. Bernadette Tobin - Catholic ethicist and professor of philosophy
17. Bertha Chatto St George Smith - Australian author and philanthropist notable for her work as national president of the Country Women's Association of Australia
18. Bertha Porush - Jewish community leader
19. Bessie Anstice Baker - writer, philanthropist and social reformer - B-class article + DYK
20. Bridget Doyle - Mary of St Joseph Doyle, first Prioress of the Abbotsford Convent
21. Bridget Partridge - Presentation Sister, whose flight from her convent in 1920 led to a sectarian scandal - B-class article + DYK
22. Brigid Arthur - Australian Brigidine sister, co-founder of the Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project
23. Brigid McGuigan - school teacher and principal who became superior general of the Sisters of Charity - C-class article
24. Brooke Prentis - Australian Aboriginal Christian leader
25. Camille Agnes Becker Paul - feminist, moral theologian and activist
26. Carol Schwartz - Australian business executive and philanthropist - New in 2022
27. Caroline Ann Rowland - Ursuline nun, religious leader and teacher
28. Catherine Cecily O'Brien - Dominican sister and educationist
29. Catherine Coffey - Teacher of Catholic catechism in colonial Australia - New in 2022
30. Catherine Fitzpatrick - founder and first conductor of St Mary's Cathedral Choir in Sydney
31. Cathy Ross (missiologist) - New Zealand-born academic
32. Cecilia Downing - Baptist temperance and women's rights activist and leader
33. Cecily Maude O'Connell - trade unionist and religious social worker - C-class article
34. Charissa Suli - President-elect of the Uniting Church in Australia
35. Chi Kwang Sunim - Zen Buddhist nun
36. Claire Renkin - art historian and academic - C-class article
37. Clara Jane McLaughlin - Mary Berchmans, became superior general for the Sisters of the Good Samaritan
38. Colleen O'Reilly - Anglican priest and Member of the Order of Australia
39. Constance Le Plastrier - Australian Catholic schoolteacher, botanist and writer who received the Cross of Pope Leo XIII (pro Ecclesia et Pontifice)
40. Constance Mary Ternent Cooke - Indigenous rights activist
41. Coralie Ling - first Methodist woman ordained in the state of Victoria
42. Cristina Rocha - anthropologist working at the intersection between globalisation, marginalisation and religion.
43. Denise A. Austin - Pentecostal historian
44. Denise Mary Champion - first Aboriginal woman from South Australia to be ordained in any Christian denomination - C-class article
45. Di Nicolios - Anglican priest - New in 2022
46. Dorothy Edna Genders - charity worker and a deaconess in the Anglican Church of Australia - C-class article
47. Edith Amelia Kerr - teacher, headmistress and Presbyterian missionary
48. Eileen Healy - Sister (later Mother) Bonaventure, Sister of Mercy, school principal and educationalist - C class article
49. Elaine Lindsay -  Australian academic instrumental in the development of the Women-Church journal
50. Eleanor Sanderson - New Zealand Anglican bishop
51. Eliza Pottie - social reformer, and a leader in temperance and suffrage activities in New South Wales - C-class article + DYK
52. Elizabeth Brentnall - Australian suffragist and temperance activist
53. Elizabeth Galloway Bell - president of the Buddhist Society of Victoria for twenty years
54. Elizabeth Joyce Smith - Australian hymnist and Anglican priest - C-class article
55. Elizabeth Julia Reid - journalist and a lay leader in the Grail movement for Catholic women - C-class article
56. Elizabeth Laurie Rees - Australian WCTU organizer
57. Elizabeth (LIz) Boase - Old Testament biblical scholar - C-class article
58. Ella (Mary Dunstan Wilson) - educator and member of the Sisters of Charity of Australia
59. Ellen Atkinson - Aboriginal community leader - B-class article
60. Ellen (Sister Mary Alphonsus) O'Doherty - religious who became the superior general of the Sisters of Charity of Australia - C-class article
61. Elsie Heiss - Australian indigenous elder and Catholic religious leader - C-class article
62. Emma Caroline Silcock - Sister (later Mother) Esther, Anglican religious sister and community worker 
63. Erin White - Feminist philosopher and theologian - New in 2022
64. Frances Barkman - Jewish community leader
65. Frances Margaret McGuire - New in 2022
66. Frances Perry - Philanthropist and community worker
67. Freer Helen Latham - schoolteacher and leader in the global Methodist women's movement - C-class article
68. Geraldine Scholastica Gibbons - founder and first superior of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan
69. Gertrude Amy Roseby - Congregationalist lay leader, school teacher, principal and school owner
70. Gertrude Healy - Musician and Sister of Mercy
71. Glenys Livingstone - Independent scholar and goddess practitioner - New in 2022
72. Grace Emily Munro - Founder of the Country Women's Association of Australia
73. Helen Plummer Phillips - Australian educator, missionary and philanthropist - New in 2022 -  B-class article
74. Hilary Carey - Australian religious historian
75. Hilda May Abba - Australian Congregationalist minister and academic
76. Isabel McCorkindale - Australian temperance, suffrage and women's rights activist
77. Isabella Goldstein - Australian suffragist, temperance advocate and social reformer - C-class article
78. Isabelle E Merry - Congregational minister and chaplain at Queen Victoria Hospital in Melbourne
79. Jane Macartney - Australian philanthropist, religious worker and teacher - C-class article
80. Janet Scarfe - Australian academic and historian involved with the Movement for the Ordination of Women - New in 2022
81. Janette Gray - Sister of Mercy theologian - C-class article
82. Janina Hiebel - academic and Biblical scholar - C-class article
83. Jean Skuse - Methodist church official, also held leadership positions with Australian Council of Churches and World Council of Churches 
84. Jo Inkpin - Australia’s first openly transgender Anglican priest - C-class article + DYK
85. Joan Nowotny - professor of philosophy and first woman to lead a theological institution in Australia
86. Julia Kindt - academic and author specialising in ancient Greek history and religion
87. Kate Prowd - Anglican bishop
88. Katharine Massam - Church historian
89. Kathleen McPhillips - Sociologist of religion and gender - C-class article
90. Kathleen Williams (theologian) - Sister of Mercy and academic - C-class article
91. Kim Power - Academic, church historian and feminist theologian - New in 2022
92. Lilian Scholes - Australian Methodist preacher and theologian - C-class article
93. Louisa Angelina (Lena) Santospirito - community worker who aided Italian immigrants during and after World War II - C-class article
94. Louise Grimes - Australian musician and teacher, first woman organist at St John's Cathedral - C-class article
95. Majella Franzmann - Professor at University of Sydney and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities - New in 2022
96. Margaret Holmes - Australian community worker, specialising in refugee resettlement
97. Marie Louise Uhr -  biochemist and leader in the movement advocating for the ordination of women in the Catholic Church
98. Marion Knowles - journalist, poet, writer and Catholic charity worker
99. Marion Macfarlane - first woman to be ordained in the Anglican Church in Australia - C-class article + DYK
100. Marita Munro - Church historian and first woman to be ordained in the Baptist Church in Australia
101. Martha Mary O'Neill - Mother Patricia, became superior general for the Australian Union of the Sisters of Mercy - C-class article
102. Martha Turner - Unitarian minister, and the first woman to work as a Christian minister in Australia - C-class article
103. Mary Baptist De Lacy - Irish-born Sister of Charity, and one of the first religious sisters to come to Australia - C-class article
104. Mary Catherine Bruton - Australian Sister of Charity
105. Mary Dunne - Sister Regis Mary Dunne, Sister of Mercy nun and biochemist
106. Mary Gertrude - born Anne Greene, nurse, provincial superior, and member of the Sisters of St John of God
107. Mary Healy - Mother Gertrude, Sister of Charity & hospital administrator
108. Mary Kate Barlow - Catholic lay leader, philanthropist, editor, and women's advocate - C-class article + DYK
109. Mary L. Coloe - religious sister and New Testament biblical scholar who specializes in the Gospel of John - C-class article
110. Mary Maria Andrews - Anglican Deaconess, missionary and church leader
111. Mary May Scollen - religious sister who was notable for her nursing and hospital administration - C-class article
112. Mary Schleicher - first deaconess in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney
113. Mary Ursula Grachan - Presentation Sister
114. Maryanne Confoy - Sister of Charity and academic - C-class article
115. Meredith Lake - Australian author, historian of religion and broadcaster - C-class article
116. Minnie Lindsay Carpenter - Australian writer and an officer in The Salvation Army in Australia - C-class article + DYK
117. Mother Mary Xavier Dooley - Presentation Sister
118. Muriel Stanley - an Indigenous Australian Anglican home missionary
119. Norah Martin - later known by her religious name Mother Mary Bernard, superior general of the Little Company of Mary for 12 years - C-class article
120. Patricia Fox - member of the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion
121. Patricia Madigan - Australian religious academic and Dominican sister
122. Phyllis Le Cappelaine Burke - English-born Australian market researcher, social reformer and housing commissioner - B-class article + DYK
123. Robina Fordyce Cowper - women's rights activist, magistrate and temperance advocate
124. Rosa MacGinley - Australian Presentation sister, academic and historian of women religious - New in 2022
125. Rose Hanigan - Mercy sister and hospital administrator - C-class article
126. Rosemary Crumlin -  Sister of Mercy, art historian, educator and exhibition curator - C-class article + DYK
127. Sandra Levy - Jewish television producer
128. Sarah Jane Lancaster - Australian Pentecostal leader - C-class article
129. Sister Mary Vincent Shelverton - teacher and Sister of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
130. Sophie McGrath - historian and religious Sister of Mercy - New in 2022
131. Subhana Barzaghi - First female Zen Roshi teacher in Australia
132. Thea Gaia - first female ordained within the Congregational Church of Australia in Queensland - New in 2022
133. Theresa (Cissie) McLaughlin - Catholic religious sister and leader of Our Lady's Nurses for the Poor
134. Tracey Rowland - Roman Catholic theologian and professor  - C-class article
135. Veronica Willaway - Indigenous Australian religious sister - C class article
136. Wendy Solling - a sculptor and Anglican Franciscan nun- C-class article + DYK
137. Yeshe Khadro - Ordained Buddhist nun