Dagmar Braun Celeste

Dagmar Braun Celeste ( born 1941 in Krems, Austria ) is an American Roman Catholic theologian.

Life

Celeste studied theology and political science. She has taught at Kent State University In her work, she campaigned for women's rights and women's ordination. She was on the board of the organization to Women 's Ordination Conference. On June 29, 2002, she was ordained in 1975 by the excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church free Rómulo Antonio Braschi Catholic Bishops on the Danube. In addition, the Roman Catholic theologians Ida Raming, Christine Mayr- Lumetzberger, Adelinde Theresia Roitinger, Gisela Forster, Iris Pia Brunner and Müller were ordained at the ceremony. Your teaching and the law of the Roman Catholic Church opposing act according to them were excommunicated on December 21, 2002 itself. Celeste was with the U.S. politician Dick Celeste, former governor of Ohio, married and has six children with him. In 1995 the couple divorced.

Literature (selection )

• We Can Do Together / Impressions Of A Recovering Feminist First Lady, Kent State University Press, 2002
• Women Find A Way: the Movement and Stories of Roman Catholic Women Priests Elsie Hainz McGrath edited by Bridget Mary Meehan and Ida Raming, ISBN 978-1-60264-223-2
• Making Waves, a play / oral history project, by Kay Eaton and Cece Miller