1788-2010 history of the catholic church in australia

By davo77

  • Arrival of First Fleet at Sydney Cove

    Possibly first Mass was said on Australian soil during this year by Fr. Receveur

  • Foundation of Christian Brothers by Edmund Ignatius Rice, Ireland

  • First public Mass said by Fr. Dixon

  • Rum Rebellion in New South Wales

  • Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson cross the Blue Mountains

  • Arrival of Fr. Jeremiah O'Flynn "Prefect-Apostolic of New Holland"

  • Fr. O'Flynn deported after the British Colonial Office opposes his appointment

  • Frs. Therry and Conolly, the first official priests arrive

  • Construction of first Catholic church at Richmond, Tasmania

  • New South Wales Judicature Act establishes the Legislative Council of NSW

  • New South Wales Judicature Act establishes the Legislative Council of NSW

  • Tasmania established as a separate colony from NSW

  • Foundation of the Swan River colony

  • Fr. Ullathorne arrives in Sydney as Vicar-General

  • Bede Polding becomes Australia's first Catholic bishop

  • Fr. Ullathorne publishes book criticising harsh treatment of convicts

    Proclamation of the colony of South Australia

  • Arrival of Caroline Chisholm in Australia

  • Arrival of Fr. Patrick Geoghegan in Melbourne

  • Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand

  • New Zealand becomes a British colony

  • Beginning of Representative Government in Australia

    Appointment of Robert Wilson as first Archbishop of Hobart

  • Appointment of Robert Wilson as first Archbishop of Hobart

  • Period of Maori Wars in New Zealand

  • John Brady appointed Bishop of Perth

  • Archbishop Polding complains of injustice to Aborigines at NSW Parliamentary Committee Meeting

  • Dom Salvado begins New Norcia Abbey in WA

  • James Alepius Goold becomes first Catholic bishop of Melbourne

  • The Catholic Church in Australia is divided into provinces and dioceses

  • Establishment of the University of Sydney

  • Beginning of the Gold Rush

  • Victoria becomes a separate colony from New South Wales

  • Fr. Patrick Dunne celebrates Mass on the goldfields of Ballarat

  • Abolition of transportation of convicts to Eastern Australia

  • Fr. Henry Backhaus begins to say Mass in a tent on the goldfields of Bendigo

  • Period of transition to self-government for New Zealand

  • Establishment of the University of Melbourne

  • Eureka Stockade, Ballarat

  • Establishment of the St. Vincent de Paul Society in Australia

  • 8 hour a day policy accepted for workers

  • St. Vincent's Hospital opens in Sydney

  • Queensland declared to be a separate colony James Quinn appointed as Bishop of Brisbane

  • Mercy Sisters arrive in Queensland

  • First Melbourne Cup Race

  • Beginning of Gold Rush in New Zealand

  • St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney destroyed by fire

  • Mary McKillop and Fr. Julian Tenison Woods found Sisters of St. Joseph

  • Daniel Murphy appointed second Archbishop of Hobart

  • Christian Brothers arrive in Melbourne

  • Re-building of St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney begins

  • Bishops' Pastoral Statement complains of injustice to Aborigines

  • Period of Maori Wars in New Zealand ended

  • Completion of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Ballarat

  • Timothy O' Mahoney appointed first bishop of Armidale

  • Colonial governments end state-aid to Church schools

  • Marist Brothers open their own school at the Rocks, Sydney

  • Diocese of Sandhurst established and Rev. Martin Crane O.S.A. appointed as Bishop

  • University of Adelaide established

  • Diocese of Ballarat established and Rev. Michael O'Connor appointed as Bishop

  • Colonial governments end state-aid to Church schools

  • Period of transition to self-government for New Zealand ended

  • Roger Vaughan O.S.B becomes Archbishop of Sydney

  • Arrival of the Jesuits in Sydney

  • Marist Brothers found St. Joseph's, Hunters Hill

  • Fr. E. Torreggiani O.F.M. appointed second bishop of Armidale

  • Death of Ned Kelly

  • First permanent St. Vincent de Paul Society established in Australia

  • Fr. Streele S.J. named Apostolic Administrator of what is now the Diocese of Darwin

  • Period of Jesuit missions in the Northern Territory

  • Queensland declared a protectorate over British New Guinea (now Papua)

  • Patrick Francis Moran appointed Archbishop of Sydney

  • Archbishop Moran made Cardinal

  • Opening of St. Patrick's Seminary, Manly

  • University of Tasmania established

  • Foundation of the Australian Labor Party in Barcaldine, Queensland

  • Economic Depression follows 1888 drought

  • Gold discovered at Kalgoorlie

  • Economic Depression follows 1888 drought ends

  • St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne opened, run by Sisters of Charity

  • Banjo Paterson writes the words to "Waltzing Matilda"

  • rench Missionaries of the Sacred Heart arrive in Australia

  • Consecration of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne

  • Federation of Australian States

  • Period of Jesuit missions in the Northern Territory ends

  • New Zealand declared a dominion of the British Empire

  • Death of Mary McKillop

  • Foundation of the University of Queensland

  • Foundation of the University of Western Australia

  • Arrival of Archbishop Daniel Mannix in Melbourne

  • Beginning of First World War

  • Australian and New Zealand troops land at Gallipoli (Turkey)

  • Defeat of First Conscription Referendum

  • Establishment of the Catholic Women's League

  • James Duhig becomes Archbishop of Brisbane

  • Defeat of Second Conscription Referendum

  • Newman College Melbourne University opened

  • Foundation of the Knights of the Southern Cross

  • Archbishop Mannix founds Corpus Christi College

  • Establishment of the Central Catholic Library in Melbourne

  • International Eucharistic Congress, Sydney

  • Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup

  • Formation of the Campion Society at Melbourne University

  • First attack on Nazism in the Melbourne Catholic newspaper The Advocate

  • Sydney Harbour Bridge completed

  • National Eucharistic Congress, Melbourne

  • Monsignor Francois-Xavier Gsell of Darwin awarded the Order of the British Empire

  • Monsignor Francois-Xavier Gsell appointed as Bishop of Darwin

  • Beginning of World War II

  • Robert Menzies becomes Prime Minister of Australia

  • St. Patrick's Cathedral Melbourne completed

  • Norman Thomas Gilroy becomes Archbishop of Sydney

  • "Rats of Tobruk" seize control of Syria

  • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour

  • Japanese invasion of New Guinea, over 100 Catholics martyred during Japanese occupation for continuing to catechise.

  • Formation of the "Movement" by Bob Santamaria

  • James McAuley and Harold Stewart publish the 'Ern Malley" poems

  • Formation of the Liberal Party by Sir Robert Menzies

  • Ben Chifley, Australian Prime Minister

  • End of World War II

  • Beginning of arrival of European immigrants

  • Archbishop Gilroy becomes first Australian Cardinal

  • Communists in trade union movement cause industrial unrest

  • Communists in trade union movement cause industrial unrest

  • Prime Minister Menzies attempts to ban Communist Party but move declared unconstitutional by the High Court

  • Bishop Gsell of Darwin awarded the Cross of the L‚gion d'Honneur by the French government

  • Referendum to ban the Communist Party of Australia defeated

  • The "Petrov Affair"

  • Labor Party Split

  • Olympic Games, Melbourne

  • Formation of the Democratic Labor Party

  • Arrival of Ivan Prasko, first Bishop for Ukrainian Catholics

  • Melbourne doctors John and Evelyn Billings pioneer Natural Family Planning research

  • Resumption of State Aid to Catholic schools

  • Death of Archbishop Mannix

  • James McAuley publishes "Captain Quiros"

  • Australian troops sent to Vietnam

  • Archbishop James Robert Knox appointed Archbishop of Melbourne

  • Paul VI visits Australia, consecrates first Papuan-born Bishop

  • Liberalisation of anti-abortion legislation

  • Paul VI establishes Maronite diocese in Australia

  • International Eucharistic Congress Melbourne

  • Appointment of Dr Thomas Francis Little Archbishop of Melbourne

  • Whitlam Labor government passes "no-fault" divorce legislation

  • Whitlam Labor government dismissed by Governor General Sir John Kerr

  • John Paul II visits Australia

  • John Paul II establishes a Melkite diocese in Australia

  • Foundation of the Australian Catholic University

  • Foundation of St. John Vianney Seminary, Wagga Wagga

  • John Paul II visits Australia for Beatification of Mary McKillop

  • John Paul II visits Papua New Guinea for Beatification of Peter Turot, martyr during the Japanese occupation

  • Appointment of Dr. George Pell as Archbishop of Melbourne

  • St Francis Cathedral Adelaide completed

  • Euthanasia legislation of Northern Territory defeated by Andrews Bill

  • Death of Bob Santamaria

  • Major General Peter Cosgrove leads deployment of Australian troops to East Timor

  • Senator Brian Harradine brokers Native Title Agreement

  • St Mary’s Cathedral Sydney completed

  • Opening of Corpus Christi seminary, Carlton

  • Opening of Catholic Theological College, East Melbourne by Cardinal Francis George of Chicago

  • Menzies retires as Prime Minister