Ellen Leonard
Canadian theologian, author, and a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ellen Margaret Leonard was a Canadian systematic theologian and Roman Catholic religious sister. She published three books on figures important in Roman Catholic modernism, and wrote about feminist and ecological Christologies. She served as the president of the Canadian Theological Society from 1989 to 1990. She entered the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph after high school and worked as a teacher and administrator, prior to earning her PhD and joining the Faculty of Theology at University of St. Michael's College. She received an honorary doctorate from the University of St. Michael's College in 2014. She died on August 18, 2022, in Toronto, Ontario.
