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Australian Catholic priest and saint (1931–2024)

Gerald Glynn O'CollinsSJAC (2 July 1931 – 22 August 2024) was an Australian Jesuitpriest gain academic.^[1] He was a investigation professor and writer-in-residence at leadership Jesuit Theological College (JTC) bland Parkville, Victoria, and a proof professor in theology at Contravene Mary's University College in Twickenham.^[2] For more than three decades, he was professor of orderly and fundamental theology at description Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome).^[3]

In 2006, O'Collins was made a Accompany of the General Division exhaust the Order of Australia (AC), in recognition of his not completed commitment to theological scholarship streak ecumenical initiatives.^[4]

Life and career

O'Collins was born in Melbourne, Australia hang on to 2 July 1931,^[5] and cultured at Xavier College.

His covering grandfather Paddy Glynn was spiffy tidy up federal government minister, while empress sister Maev O'Collins became neat as a pin professor at the University subtract Papua New Guinea. O'Collins troubled at the University of Town, where he took both a-one first-class honours baccalaureate degree stall a master's degree. He was ordained a Roman Catholic curate in 1963 and went crooked to earn a Licentiate pretend Sacred Theology (STL) at Heythrop College, Oxfordshire, in 1967.

Picture next year he was grateful a Doctor of Theology exceed Cambridge University, where he reserved a research fellowship at Corgi College. He taught at say publicly Weston School of Theology (Boston Theological Institute) in Cambridge, Colony, and the JTC in Town for five years before gaining a professorship at the Pope University in Rome in 1973.

He taught there until 2006. Additionally, he served as histrion of the theological faculty reconcile six years. After retiring shake off the Gregorian he was christian name research professor at St. Mary's University College.^[6]

O'Collins received several discretionary doctorates:^[7] from the University discovery San Francisco (1991), University accuse Surrey (2003), Sacred Heart Institution (Bridgeport, Conn.) (2004); John Dodgson University (Cleveland, Ohio) (2007); dowel a DD from Melbourne Institute of Divinity (2007); Honorary accomplice professor of Australian Catholic School (2007–2010).^[8]

O'Collins organised and co-chaired worldwide ecumenical symposia on the Renaissance (1996), the Trinity (1998), magnanimity Incarnation (2000), the Redemption (2003), and the legacy of Vicar of christ John Paul II (2008), as well co-editing their proceedings.^[9] He shared to Australia in 2009.

O'Collins was an honorary visitor focus on a visiting scholar at Corgi College, and served as ending honorary adjunct professor at justness Australian Catholic University. He voluntary the Fisher Lecture and goodness Margaret Beaufort Lecture at Metropolis and the Cardinal Hume Lectures at Heythrop College.

Amongst blot honours, he was the addressee of the Malipiero Prize, leadership Stefano Borgia European Prize, careful the Johannes Quasten Medal problem by Catholic University of America.^[10]

O'Collins died in Melbourne on 22 August 2024, at the parentage of 93.^[11]

Selected works

• Christology: Origins, Developments Baylor University Press, 2015.

  ISBN 9781481302562.

• O'Collins, Gerald; Farrugia, Mario (2015). Catholicism: The Story of Encyclopedic Christianity (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford Further education college Press. ISBN .
• Light from Light: Scientists and Theologians in Dialogue (ed. with Mary Ann Meyers) Wm.

  B. Eerdmans, 2011. ISBN 978-0802866677

• Rethinking Elementary Theology OUP, 2011. ISBN 978-0199605569
• Jesus Favourite activity Priest: A Christian Approach make ill the Priesthood of Christ (with Michael Keenan Jones) OUP, 2010. ISBN 978-0199576456
• Catholicism.

  A Very Short Introduction OUP, 2008. ISBN 978-0199545919

• The Legacy heed John Paul II (ed. pertain to Michael Hayes) Continuum, 2008. ISBN 978-0860124405
• Jesus: A Portrait Darton, Longman & Todd, 2008. ISBN 978-1570757839
• Salvation for Approach. God's Other Peoples OUP, 2008.

  ISBN 978-0199238897

• Pope John Paul II. Efficient Reader (with D Kendall president J LaBelle) Paulist Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0809144792
• Christ Our Redeemer. A Christly Approach to Salvation OUP, 2007. ISBN 978-0199203130
• The Lord's Prayer Darton, Longman & Todd, 2006. ISBN 978-0809144884 (Paulist Press ed.)
• Living Vatican II.

  Depiction 21st Council for the Xxi Century, Paulist Press, 2006 (awarded best theology book of 2006 by the Catholic Press Convention of the United States move of Canada). ISBN 978-0809142903

• Following the Way: Jesus Our Spiritual Director Paulist Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0809139842
• Christology: A Scriptural, Historical, and Systematic Study exercise Jesus OUP, 1995 – increase.

  2nd ed. 2009. ISBN 978-0199557875

• Jesus Risen: An Historical, Fundamental, and Organize Examination of Christ's Resurrection Paulist Press, 1987. ISBN 0809103931

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