Christopher Gleeson S.J. was born in Melbourne and educated by the Presentation Sisters in Sandringham and the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) at Xavier College, whose ranks he joined in 1962. Ordained priest in 1975, he has spent much of his working life as a teacher and administrator in Jesuit schools, nearly twenty-one of which as Head of both Xavier College in Melbourne and St Ignatius’ College, Riverview, in Sydney. During the years 2011-2015 he returned to Melbourne as the Provincial’s Delegate for Education, after which he was assigned to Sydney 2016-2018 as the Ignatian Formation Delegate. From 2019 to 2026 he was Superior of the Jesuit Community at Xavier College and remains a member of the school’s chaplaincy team as Chaplain to the staff. A keen writer, he has written several books for parents and teachers over the years and has been Editor of the Madonna magazine since 2003.
