Australian Catholics

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  • First Catholics

    In 1788 The first fleet of catholics Arrive to Australia

  • Irish convicts

    a total of 2086 Irish convicts, nearly all of whom were Catholic, had been transported to Botany Bay

  • Good Samaritans sisters

    as well as the Sisters of Charity, there were also, among others, the Good Samaritan Sisters, founded by Polding in 1857

  • Sisters of St Joseph

    Sisters of St Joseph, founded in 1866 by Fr Julian Tenison Woods and Mary MacKillop, now recognised as Australia's first saint

  • Catholic schools

    By 1833, there were about ten Catholic schools in the country.

  • aussie Catholic Domination

    Irish clergy dominated Australian Catholic life until fairly recently, and it was not until the 1930s that Australian-born priests outnumbered them.
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    Vatican II

    The Second Vatican Council, also known as Vatican II, was the most significant twentieth century event in the Catholic Church. Held in Rome from 1962 to 1965

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