Marita Munro

Marita Munro (born 1955) is an Australian minister and academic who was the first Baptist woman to be ordained in Australia.

Early life and education Munro was born in Queensland. She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland. She is the President of the Victoria Baptist Historical Society.

Publications Marita Munro and Roslyn Otzen, eds. ‘Doing What Comes Naturally,’ Baptcare, Vic., December 2017. ‘“A Debt of Gratitude”: Martin Luther, Anabaptists and Baptists’. 134 (Autumn 2017): 16–18. Biographical essay. In Frank Rees, ed. . Melbourne: Whitley College, 2016, 9-24. “Making Connections”: Australian Baptists and the Public Sphere in the Twentieth Century’. In Douglas Weaver, ed. . Milton Keynes, UK: Paternoster, 2015, 188–204. ‘Brunswick Baptist Church: the first fifty years, 1862-1912’. 22 (2014): 26–55. ‘No Plaster Saints.’ In Alan Cadwallader, ed. . Adelaide: Australian Theological Forum: 2010, 157–74. ‘ “A Struggle for Identity and Direction”: A History of Victoria Baptists, c. 1960-c.2000’. Peter Lang, Berlin.