Carol Gallagher, a member of the Cherokee nation, was born December 24, 1955 to the Rev. Donald K. and Elizabeth Anne WalkingStick Theobald. She received her BA from Antioch College, Baltimore campus, in writing and communication, her MDIV from from Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1989, and a Th.M. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1998. She has served on the faculty of Villanova University.

She has been an Episcopal priest since 1990 and has served as assistant at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Baltimore, Maryland, St. Martin's Church in Radnor, Pennsylvania and as priest-in-charge at Trinity Church in Collingdale, Pennsylvania. Before joining our Diocese, she was most recently the Rector of St. Anne's Church in Middletown, Delaware where she had been since September of 1996. In the Diocese of Delaware she served as Consultant for Clergy Issues, was a member of the Standing Committee, a Deputy to General Convention, and the Ecumenical Officer.

At the national church level, she served on the Board of the Indigenous Theological Training Institute, the Episcopal Council of Indian Ministries and the Anti-Racism Committee. She has also served as co-chair on the Committee of the Status of Women, a member of the executive committee of the Council for the Development of Ministry and was chaplain to the Episcopal Church Women's triennial in Philadelphia in 1997.

Carol has been married to Mark Gallagher since 1975 and they have three daughters: Emily, who is a theatre teacher, Ariel, who is a dance therapy major at Cedar Crest College and Phoebe, who is studying at St. Catherine's School in Richmond.

She has contributed and written for many publications and serves on the editorial board of the First Peoples Theology Journal. Carol finds much joy in music, especially guitar, folk harp and vocal music of all kinds. She has written several pieces that will be included in the upcoming Episcopal Women's Hymnal.

Carol Gallagher was consecrated Bishop in the Church of God in April, 2002, in Lawrenceville, Virginia, and became Bishop Suffragan in the Diocese of Southern Virginia. She and her family live on the Colonial Heights/Chesterfield border and she works out of the Petersburg office in the diocese.

From The Diocese of Southern Virginia website