Gerard Mannion is an Irish citizen and was educated at King’s College, Cambridge University (BA, MA Cantab.) and New College, Oxford University (MSt, DPhil, MA Oxon). He has published widely in the fields of ecclesiology, ethics, and public theology, as well as in other aspects of systematic theology and philosophy. Presently, he serves as Chair of the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network, is a Senior Research Fellow of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and a Senior Fellow of the Centro per le Scienze Religiose, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy. He has been a consultant adviser on philosophy, theology and ethics to the charity, Porticus UK, since 1996.  Previously, he served as Lecturer and Tutor in Philosophy, Doctrine and Ethics at Westminster College, Oxford; as Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology, Ecclesiology and Ethics at Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds; and was Associate Professor of Ecclesiology and Ethics at Liverpool Hope University, where he was founding director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Ecclesiology, and Co-Director of the Applied Ethics initiative.

From 1996-2001, he was a member of the Queen’s Foundation Working Party on Authority and Governance in the Roman Catholic Church, and in 2004 was Coolidge Fellow at Union Theological Seminary/Columbia University, New York. In 2003 he was a participant in the ‘Teaching the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project’ program at the Ethics Institute, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA.

Mannion has served on the UK Catholic Theology Commission on Social Justice and is a member of CAFOD’s Theological Advisory Group. He is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Catholic Theological Society of America, the European Society of Catholic Theology, the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain (serving on its committee for four years), and the Association of Teachers of Moral Theology. He has been an external examiner for various institutions, such as the Cambridge Theological Federation, Heythrop College – University of London, and the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College, Dublin.

Also founding co-chair of the Ecclesiology Program Group of the American Academy of Religion (www.aarweb.org/Meetings/Annual_Meeting/Program_Units/PUinformation.asp), he has organised and taken part in numerous international conferences and symposia and has collaborated with many theologians based in various universities across the globe. To date, he has been fortunate enough to have enjoyed the opportunity to offer over 80 conference and symposia contributions and presentations in many different countries including Austria, Belgium, Brasil, Canada, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sri Lanka, the United States and throughout England and Wales.

Mannion is the editor of the T. & T. Clark publications series, Ecclesiological Investigations (see http://www.continuumbooks.com/series/browse.aspx?SeriesId=2163) and his own publications include the following:

1. Author, Schopenhauer, Religion and Morality - The Humble Path to Ethics, Ashgate Press, New Critical Thinking in Philosophy Series, 2003.

2. Principal Editor, Readings in Church Authority - Gifts and Challenges for Contemporary Catholicism, Ashgate Press, 2003; eds. Gerard Mannion, Richard Gaillardetz, Jan Kerkhofs, Kenneth Wilson.

3. Author, Ecclesiology and Postmodernity – Questions for the Church in our Times, Collegeville, Liturgical Press, 2007.

4. Co-editor, Catholic Social Justice: Theological and Practical Explorations, eds. Philomena Cullen, Bernard Hoose & Gerard Mannion, T. &. T Clark/Continuum, 2007.

5. Principal Editor, The Routledge Companion to the Christian Church eds. Gerard Mannion with Lewis Mudge, Routledge, 2007.

6. Co-author, Christian Community Now: Ecclesiological Investigation, Paul Collins, Gerard Mannion, Gareth Powell and Kenneth Wilson, T&T Clark International, 2008.

7. Co-editor, Moral Theology for the 21st Century: Essays in Celebration of Kevin Kelly, with Julie Clague and Bernard Hoose, Continuum.

8. Editor, Comparative Ecclesiology: Critical Investigations, T. & T. Clark/Continuum, 2008.

9. Editor, Church and Religious Other: Essays on Truth, Unity and Diversity, T. & T. Clark/Continuum, 2008.

10. Editor, The Vision of John Paul II: Assessing his Thought and Influence,  Liturgical Press, 2008.

11. Author, Chiesa e postmoderno. Domande per l'ecclesiologia del nostro tempo, published in the Scienze religiose series, EDB, Bologna, 2009), Italian edition of Ecclesiology and Postmodernity trans. Giovanni Pernigotto.