Honorary doctorate holders

Browse the list of honorary doctorate recipients from the Australian Catholic University.

1992

Sir Bernard James Callinan AC CBE DSO MC (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred at Inauguration Ceremony of Australian Catholic University on 23 April 1992

1994

Rev Dr Francis Henry Harman AO (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 2 May 1994

1996

Dr Victor James Couch AM (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 11 April 1996
Br Justin Linus Kelty cfc (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 1 June 1996
His Excellency The Hon Sir James Augustine Gobbo AC CVO QC (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 3 June 1996

1997

Sr Noni Mitchell ibvm (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 3 April 1997
Mr Basil George Turner - Honorary Master of Arts conferred on 4 April 1997
Most Rev Thomas Francis Little KBE (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 29 May 1997

1998

Rev Francis Mecham OAM (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate on 17 April 1998

1999

The Hon Sir William Patrick Deane AC KBE - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 8 April 1999
Dr John Billings AM KCSG (deceased) - Honorary Doctorates conferred on 16 April 1999
Dr Evelyn Billings AM DCSG (deceased) - Honorary Doctorates conferred on 16 April 1999
Emeritus Professor Rosemary Goldie AO (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 23 April 1999

2000

Rev Valentine Cedric Patterson msc (deceased) - Honorary Masters conferred on 7 April 2000
The Hon Mrs Mary Marguerite Leneen Forde AC - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 13 April 2000
Br Charles Howard fms AM (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 27 April 2000
Ms Evelyn Ruth Scott AO (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 27 April 2000
Sr Mary Gabrielle Jennings rsm (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 2 June 2000

2001

Dr Robert Fitzgerald AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 6 April 2001
Emeritus Professor Tess Cramond AO OBE (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 11 April 2001
Most Reverend Carlos Belo sdb - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 23 April 2001
Sr Rosemary Crumlin rsm OAM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 25 May 2001
Mr John Theodore Ralph AC - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 25 May 2001

2002

Sr Evelyn Mary Woodward rsj (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 5 April 2002
Mr John Anthony Eales AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 10 April 2002
Sr Deirdre Ann Rofe ibvm (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 20 April 2002
Professor John Michael Dwyer AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 3 May 2002
His Eminence Cardinal Edward Bede Clancy AC (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 3 May 2002
Professor The Honourable Dame Marie Roslyn Bashir AD CVO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 3 May 2002
Rev Thomas Michael Doyle AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 10 May 2002

2003

Mr Geoffrey Joy - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 4 April 2003
Sr Patricia Pak Poy rsm AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 3 May 2003
Professor Ivan Deveson AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 9 May 2003
Sr Marie Kehoe rsm AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 9 May 2003
Professor Emeritus Peter Drake AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 23 May 2003

2004

Bishop Geoffrey Robinson DD (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 26 March 2004
Mrs Sallyanne Atkinson AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 2 April 2004
Ms Joan Carden AO OBE - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 15 April 2004
Fr John O'Reilly - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 28 April 2004
Frà Professor Richard Divall AO OBE (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 28 April 2004
Mr Allan Myers AC QC - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 1 May 2004
Professor Bernard Hickey AM (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 2 September 2004

2005

Sir Peter Leslie Charles Barter OBE (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 23 March 2005
The Honourable Anthony Murray Gleeson AC QC - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 31 March 2005
The Reverend Father Cyril Thomas Hally SSC JCL (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 31 March 2005
Mr Julian William Kennedy Burnside AO QC - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 9 April 2005
Dr Shirin Ebadi - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 14 April 2005
Mr John Fredolin Gleeson AM (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 14 April 2005
Lady Primrose Catherine Potter AC - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 21 April 2005
Dr Gerard Ronald Vaughan AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 21 April 2005
The Most Reverend Ming-Cheung Michael Yeung - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 17 December 2005

2006

Most Reverend Francis Patrick Carroll - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 31 March 2006
The Wiggles - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 11 April 2006
Reverend Father William Jordan (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred 29 April 2006
Fr Thomas Patrick Boland (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred 10 May 2006
Sr Kathleen Mary Burke rsm (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 10 May 2006
The Honourable Susan Crennan AC QC - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 25 May 2006
Mr David Wenham - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 25 May 2006
The Honourable James Spigelman AC - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 4 October 2006

2007

Mr Phil Glendenning AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 30 March 2007
Mr Jimmy Little AO (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 11 April 2007
Mr Terry Sullivan - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 11 April 2007
The Honourable Fred Chaney AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 5 May 2007
Mr Gerald Gleeson AC KCSG (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 8 May 2007
Ms Susanne Macri AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 8 May 2007
Rev John Thornhill SM (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 8 May 2007
Ms Margaret Gurry AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 28 May 2007
Mr Michael Leunig - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 29 May 2007
Archbishop Michael Miller - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 1 August 2007
Mr Rino Grollo - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 4 October 2007

2008

Reverend Tim Costello AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 12 April 2008
Br Kelvin Canavan fms AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 21 April 2008
Mr Francis Sullivan AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 22 April 2008
Mr Li Cunxin AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 22 April 2008
The Honourable Lex Lasry AM QC - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 6 May 2008
Mr Eugene Cullity AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 6 May 2008
Sr Mary Ronayne sgs (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 27 May 2008
Ms Margaret Vider DSG- Honorary Doctorate conferred on 27 May 2008
Sr Mary McDonald sgs - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 27 May 2008
Mr Terrence O'Connell OAM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 2 October 2008

2009

Sr Angela Ryan csb - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 27 March 2009
Mrs Jan Buckley - Honorary Master of Arts conferred on 30 March 2009
Mr David Landa - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 30 March 2009
Sr Joan Healy rsj - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 31 March 2009
Mrs Patricia Burke AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 31 March 2009
Sr Denise Coghlan rsm AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 15 April 2009
Dr Eric Shaw CBE (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 15 April 2009
Mr James Synan - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 2 May 2009
Rev William James Uren sj AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 4 May 2009
Mr Kevin Sheedy AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 5 May 2009
Mr Brendan Dooley (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 5 May 2009
General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK CVO MC (Retd) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 29 September 2009
Ms Isabel Guterres - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 31 October 2009

2010

Father Jan Stanislaw Sebastian Czuba svd - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 26 March 2010
Fr Brendan Byrne sj - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 26 March 2010
Mr E W R (Ted) Howard AM OBE (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 8 April 2010
Fr Edmund Campion - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 20 April 2010
Mr Tony Carroll KCSG AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 20 April 2010
Emeritus Rabbi Raymond Apple AO rfd (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 20 April 2020
Professor Thomas John (Jack) Martin AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 8 May 2010
Rev Professor Gerald O'Collins AC sj - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 7 June 2010
Mr Bernard Michael Geary OAM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 8 June 2010
Mr Richard Gill AO (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 8 June 2010
Mr Francis Aloysius Costa - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 28 September 2010

2011

Professor Tim Flannery - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 4 April 2011
Rev Prof James Haire AC KSJ - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 5 April 2011
Sr Anne Derwin rsj (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 5 April 2011
Mr Alan Druery OAM (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 20 April 2011
Emeritus Professor Peter Sheehan AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 20 April 2011
Mr Geoffrey Torney AM (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 7 May 2011
Dr He Qi - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 19 May 2011
Rev Emeritus Professor Francis Moloney SDB AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 19 May 2011
Mr Jim Stynes OAM (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 20 May 2011
Rev Emeritus Professor Peter Steele AM sj (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 20 May 2011

2012

Mrs Helen Christine Williams - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 24 April 2012
Aunty Joan Patricia Hendriks (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 4 May 2012
The Honourable Dr John Herron AO (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 4 May 2012
Archbishop Bruno Forte - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 9 July 2012
Professor Francis X Clooney SJ - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 25 July 2012
Professor Mary Anne Glendon - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 4 December 2012

2013

Sr Patricia Franklin IBVM AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 16 March 2013
Sr Margaret Mary Brown OP - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 23 March 2013
Sr Rosemary Lewins OP - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 23 March 2013
Br Robert Julian McDonald cfc AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 8 April 2013
The Honorable Timothy Andrew Fischer AC (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 23 April 2013
Thomas Keneally AO FAHA - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 14 May 2013
His Eminence Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga SDB - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 14 October 2013
Br Ambrose Payne AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 14 October 2013

2014

Mr Ian MacRitchie - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 7 April 2014
Very Reverend Peter Gregory Williams VG EV - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 8 April 2014
The Honourable Justice Barry O'Keefe AM QC (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 8 April 2014
His Grace Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald M Afr - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 5 May 2014
Most Rev Bishop James Foley DD DPh (Leuven) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 19 May 2014
Aunty Ruth Hegarty - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 19 May 2014
Reverend Professor John Thaddeus Pawlikowski OSM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 20 May 2014
His Grace Archbishop Diarmuid Martin - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 14 July 2014
His Eminence Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle DD - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 4 August 2014
His Eminence Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 14 August 2014
His Grace Archbishop Dominique François Joseph Mamberti - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 24 November 2014

2015

His Grace Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 6 May 2015
Sr Assumption Neary sjg - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 8 May 2015
Rabbi John Simon Levi AC - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 12 May 2015
Mervyn John Phillips AO (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 26 May 2015
Sr Giovanni Farquer rsj - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 27 May 2015
Professor Jean-Luc Marion - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 26 June 2015
His Eminence George Cardinal Pell AC - Doctor of Laws conferred on 1st September 2015
Professor Dianne Bergant CSA - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 18 September 2015
Reverend Dr Paul Stenhouse OAM MSC (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 29 September 2015

2016

Professor Fiona Forbes - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 5 April 2016
Dr Brenda Mary Niall AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 7 April 2016
Baroness Sheila Hollins - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 13 April 2016
Monsignor Guy-Réal Thivierge - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 19 May 2016
Mr Les Murray AO (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 24 May 2016
Professor Romano Pirola OAM and Mrs Mavis Pirola OAM (joint award) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 25 May 2016
His Eminence Donald Cardinal Wuerl BA MA STD - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 31 August 2016
Dr Stephen Aitken (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 6 October 2016

2017

Sr Angela Mary Doyle RSM AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 5 May 2017
Sr Elizabeth Dodds RSC - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 24 May 2017
The Hon Sir Gerard Brennan AC KBE GBS QC (deceased) - Doctor of Laws conferred on 25 May 2017
Mr Edward William Exell AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 30 May 2017
Mr Peter John O'Callaghan QC (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 31 May 2017
Sr Anne Marie Gardiner FDNSC, AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 5 October 2017
Mr Julian McMahon AC SC - Doctor of Laws conferred on 10 October 2017
His Grace Anba Suriel - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 10 October 2017

2018

Aunty Fay Mary Green OAM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 9 May 2018
Elizabeth Gleeson AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 10 May 2018

2019

Ellen Maev O'Collins MBE PhD (deceased) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 12 April 2019
Archbishop Denis James Hart DD - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 30 April 2019
Brother Aengus Kavanagh FSP - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 22 May 2019
Chiara Perinetti Casoni - Honorary Master of Arts conferred on 13 June 2019
Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher STL JCD - Doctor of Laws conferred on 24 June 2019
Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda CSsR - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 23 July 2019
Brother Jude Butcher cfc AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 29 July 2019
Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AO QC - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 15 October 2019

2020

Dr Gerard Joseph Henderson and Mrs Anne Elizabeth Henderson AM (joint award) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 6 October 2020

2021

The Honourable Greg Crafter AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 28 April 2021
Reverend Christopher Willcock SJ - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 28 April 2021
Sr Mary O'Shannassy sgs OAM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 29 April 2021
Marionne MacRitchie - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 25 May 2021
The Hon John Fahey AC, GCSG (Posthumous) - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 27 May 2021
Emeritus Professor Greg Craven AO GCSG - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 17 December 2021

2022

Sr Melissa Therese Dwyer FdCC - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 5 April 2022
Sr Clare Therese Condon SGS- Honorary Doctorate conferred on 26 May 2022
Stephen Thomas Sedgwick AO- Honorary Doctorate conferred on 26 May 2022
Reverend Wilson D Miscamble CSC - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 15 July 2022
Dr Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr Baumann AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 5 October 2022

2023

Br Peter James Bray FSC - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 17 February 2023
Rev Dr Gerald A. Arbuckle SM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 18 May 2023
James Wilson-Miller - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 18 May 2023
Professor Isabel Maria de Oliveira Capeloa Gil - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 30 August 2023
Natalie Mary Paton AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 17 October 2023
Geraldine Frances Doogue AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 17 October 2023

2024

Susan Pascoe AM - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 15 April 2024
Dr Rachael Kohn AO - Honorary Doctorate conferred on 13 May 2024
Rev Dr Dennis Henry Holtschneider CM – Honorary Doctorate conferred on 23 August 2024
Joseph de Bruyn AO – Honorary Doctorate conferred on 21 October 2024
His Most Eminent Highness Fra’ John Timothy Dunlap, Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, of Malta – Honorary Doctorate conferred on 4 November 2024