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Join us in celebrating 50 years of Women's Ordination to the Priesthood. Throughout the rest of 2024, we will be profiling women clergy of The Diocese of Atlanta. Learn more about the series: https://episcopalatlanta.org/news/50th-women/

The Rev. Dr. Gabrielle Thomas is Assistant Professor in Early Christianity and Anglican Studies at Candler School of Theology - Emory University, and Theologian in Community at St. Luke's Episcopal Church - Atlanta, GA. Prior to that, she completed post-doctoral work at Yale University (US) and Durham University (UK). She was ordained in 2015 and served as an Assistant Curate in London Diocese and as a Minor Canon in Durham Cathedral.

Thomas is a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Theological Reflection Group and was the first woman to be appointed to the Anglican – Oriental Orthodox International Commission. In addition to authoring a significant number of journal articles, book chapters, and reviews for academic and ecclesial readers, she has published three books: The Image of God in the Theology of Gregory Nazianzus (Cambridge, 2019), Women and Ordination in the Orthodox Church: Explorations in Theology and Practice (co-edited, Cascade, 2020), and For the Good of the Church: Unity, Theology and Women (SCM Press, 2021).