The Reverend Elizabeth Joyce Smith | |
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| Born | 1956 Stawell, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation(s) | Anglican priest, hymnist |
| Known for | Hymns |
| Ecclesiastical career | |
| Religion | Anglican |
| Ordained | 1993 |
Elizabeth Joyce Smith AM (born 1956) is an Australian Anglican priest and hymnist. She has published three collections of hymns, and several of her hymns have been included in the ecumenical hymnal Together in Song. Ordained a deacon in the Anglican Church in Australia in 1987, Smith became a priest in 1993. She earned a PhD from the Pacific School of Religion, where she focused on feminist hermeneutics and liturgical studies. Her doctoral thesis was published in 1999, with the title Bearing Fruit in Due Season: Feminist Hermeneutics and the Bible in Worship. She has served on the Liturgy Commission for the Anglican Church of Australia since 1997. In 2018, she was commissioned to write a hymn for the installation of Archbishop Kay Goldsworthy. In 2020, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for her contributions to liturgical scholarship and to the Anglican Church of Australia.