Academic Staff

Dr Cristina Lledo Gomez is a Catholic Systematic Theologian. She is Senior Lecturer in Theology at BBI-TAITE and Senior Research Fellow for the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture at Charles Sturt University. Her role at BBI-TAITE is promoting women’s spiritualities, feminist theologies, and ecotheologies.

Cristina is the author of the Church as Woman and Mother (2018) and co-editor of several books including Vulnerability and Flourishing with John Sheveland (2025), 500 Years of Christianity and the Global Filipino/a: Postcolonial Perspectives with Agnes Brazal and Marilou Ibita (2024) and Embodying Ecclesial Diversity with Brian Flanagan (forthcoming). She is author of several articles and chapters including the award winning: “Bangon Na, Pinays Rise Up” (College Theology Society, 2025) and “Mother Language, Mother Church, Mother Earth” (Catholic Theological Society of America, 2020).

Cristina has been part of many Boards including as first lay Chair of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council (2019 – 2020), Chair of the Committee for Underrepresented Ethnic Groups (2018-2021) at the CTSA and Women’s Consultation for Constructive Theology (2022-2026) at the CTSA. She has also been Board Member for the Ecclesiological Investigations Network (EIN) since 2019 and College Theology Society (2022-2025). Cristina is currently co-chair of the EIN sessions at the American Academy of Religion (since 2023).

Cristina obtained her Bachelors and Master of Theology degrees at the Catholic Institute of Sydney (2005 and 2009) and her PhD in Theology at Charles Sturt University, Australia (2015).