Dr Birute Arendarcikas RSM is a lecturer at the Catholic Theological College and is the Head of the Department of Systematic Theology, a sessional teacher at Australian Catholic University and is Congress secretary of the Russian Byzantine Catholic Global Congress Secretary, a participating member of the bimonthly Russian Byzantine Catholic Global Zoom Meetings.as well as a religious of the Sisters of Mercy (RSM).
Her current academic interest is Ecumenism, in particular the relationship between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches.