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Fr Stephen Bevans SVD
Stephen Bevans is a priest of the Society of the Divine Word. Ordained in 1971, he served from 1972 until 1981 as a missionary to the Philippines and is currently the Louis J. Luzbetak, SVD Professor of Mission and Culture at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, where he has taught since 1986. Fr. Bevans has lectured all over the world, including the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Germany and Italy, and in many places in the United States as well. He is the author of Models of Contextual Theology (1992), An Introduction to Theology in Global Perspective (2009), and, with Roger Schroeder, Constants in Context (2004) and Prophetic Dialogue (2011), and, with Jeffrey Gros, Evangelization and Freedom (2009). He has served as president of the American Society of Missiology (2006) and on the board of directors of the Catholic Theological Society of America (2007-2009).

Mr Edmund Chia
Senior Lecturer, School of Theology, Australian Catholic University

Archbishop Mark Coleridge
Archbishop Mark Coleridge was ordained as an Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne in 2002, appointed as the Archbishop of Canberra-Goulburn in 2006 and the Archbishop of Brisbane in 2012. After Ordination in 1974 Fr Coleridge worked as an assistant priest in various Melbourne parishes before being invited to study Sacred Scripture in Rome. He completed a doctorate in Sacred Scripture in 1992. He has worked in the Vatican Secretariat of State and been Master of the Catholic Theological College, Melbourne. Archbishop Coleridge is also a member of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications and the Pontifical Council for Culture. He is the Chairman of the Bishops Commission for Liturgy and a member of the Bishops Commission for Doctrine and Morals (ACBC).

Sr Clare Condon SGS
Congregational Leader of the Good Samaritan Sisters

Fr Noel Connolly SSC
Head of Mission Studies, Columban Mission Institute
and Broken Bay Institute

Sr Annette Cunliffe RSC
President, Catholic Religious Australia

Mrs Therese and Mr Jim D’Orsa
Educationalists and authors on mission and education

Ms Robin de Crespigny
Writer

Mr Jack de Groot
National Director, Caritas Australia

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Mrs Kath Evans
Kath Evans was cured of cancer through the intercession of St Mary MacKillop in 1996 and her cure was accepted as a miracle in the process of Mary’s canonisation. Since her recovery, Kath and her husband Barry have responded to invitations around Australia to share their experience of God’s grace through Mary MacKillop. Kath and Barry have five children, 20 grandchildren and are welcoming the next generation to their family.

Dr John Falzon
Chief Executive Officer of St Vincent de Paul Society

Mr Denis Fitzgerald
Executive Director, Catholic Social Services Victoria

Ms Julie Flynn
Mercy Connect

Ms Elise Ganley
National Coordinator, Young Christian Students

Mr Phil Glendenning
Director, Edmund Rice Centre

Dr Gerard Goldman
Executive Officer of BBI Council and Director, Broken Bay Institute

Mr Malcolm Hart
Senior Youth Ministry Projects Officer, ACBC Commission for Pastoral Life

Fr Greg Homeming OCD
Prior Carmelite Priory, St Ives

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Ms Donella Johnston
Director, Office for the Participation of Women ACBC

Mr Martin Laverty
Chief Executive Officer, Catholic Health Australia

Dr Maryanne Loughry RSM AM
Assistant Director, Jesuit Refugee Services

Mr Joe Maloney
Senior Researcher, Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Service

Sr Maureen McBride RNDM
Maureen McBride has extensive experience in leadership, formation and education. She has been the Congregational Leader of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions since 2002. The congregation has over 1,000 members living and ministering in 23 countries across the world. Since 2008 new foundations have been opened in South Sudan, Laos, Thailand, Kazakhstan and Taiwan. Sr Maureen has held positions in university faculties in New Zealand and the Philippines. She holds a Master of Arts in French and German as well as a Master of Theology from the Maryknoll School of Theology, New York. She has been a member of the SEDOS Executive, Rome (Service of Documentation and Study on Global Mission).

Mr John McGrath
Director of Mission, Catholic Schools Office, Broken Bay

Fr Patrick McInerney SSC
Director, Columban Mission Institute

Mr Graeme Mundine
Executive Officer, Aboriginal Catholic Ministry, Sydney

Fr Tim Norton SVD
Provincial, Divine Word Missionaries

Mr Roger O’Halloran
Executive Director, PALMS Australia

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Fr Maurizio Pettena CS
National Director, Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Service

Sr Lorraine Phelan RSM
Mercy Connect

Bishop Julian Porteous
Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney

Bishop Pat Power
Retired Auxiliary Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn

Mr Paul Power
Director, Refugee Council of Australia

H. E. Jose Ramos-Horta
H. E. Jose Ramos-Horta started his professional life as a journalist but was exiled in 1970 to Mozambique where he worked towards securing independence for East Timor. After the withdrawal of the Portuguese colonial authorities, Jose Ramos-Horta joined the newly founded Fretilin party and continued to work for independence. Following invasion by Indonesia, he represented Fretilin at the UN from 1977 to 1985, advocating for human rights and promoting a peace plan to end the violence in his country. He obtained qualifications in Public International Law, Peace Studies and Human Rights Law. In 1996, Jose Ramos-Horta and Bishop Carlos Belo were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict. Since independence in 1999, Jose Ramos-Horta has served as both President and Prime Minister of Timor-Leste in addition to other ministerial roles. He has advocated for forgiveness as ‘human being, victim and head of state’.

Mr Mark Raue
Head of System Improvement, Catholic Education Office, Wollongong

Mrs Jacqui Remond
Director, Catholic Earthcare

Bishops Christopher Saunders
Bishop of Broome

Dr Gemma Tulud Cruz
Gemma Tulud Cruz has taught for a number of years in the United States before moving to Australia where she is currently Senior Lecturer in Theology at Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. She holds a Ph.D in Theology from Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Her main research focus is migration. She is author of An Intercultural Theology of Migration: Pilgrims in the Wilderness and recently completed One Bread, One Body, One People: Challenges of Migration. Her other areas of interest include missiology, women and gender issues, contextual theologies, global Catholicism, and theologies of liberation