Carol Joy Walkingstick Theobald Gallagher (born December 24, 1955) is an American author and a bishop in

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Gallagher, born Theobald, was born on December 24, 1955, in

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, the daughter of the Rev. Donald K. Theobald and Elizabeth Anne WalkingStick. Her father served as the pastor of Huntingdon Valley Presbyterian Church from 1946 to 1952. She graduated with a Bachelor in Writing and Communication from

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and in 1989 earned her

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from the

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. She also earned a

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from

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in 1998. In 2004 she also gained a

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in Urban Affairs and Public Policy from the

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. Gallagher was ordained priest in 1990 and became an assistant priest at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Baltimore and at St Martin's Church in

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. She was also a Priest-in-charge of Trinity Church in

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. Between 1996 and 2002 she served as rector of St Anne's Church in

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. She was elected Suffragan Bishop of Southern Virginia in 2002 and was consecrated on April 6, 2002, by

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, Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania. In 2005 she was elected Assistant Bishop of Newark while in 2007 was elected Assistant Bishop of North Dakota. In 2014 she became the Assistant Bishop of Montana while in 2018 she was appointed Canon for the Central Region in the Diocese of Massachusetts.

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