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La Perouse comes to Botany Bay from all the way from France with his Chaplin, abbe Mones who celebrated the first group gathering within Australian region.
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Fr James Dixon and 2 other priests arrested because of the 1798 Irish rebellion. They were taken to New South Wales as bad people to put them in jail.
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First main catholic community gathering was held under strict government guide. It was held and celebrated by prisoner priests and Fr Dixon. The reason this huge event was held to introduce the laws and regulations for the Catholics worshipers. When this event was held till that time there were already 17,000 catholic worshipers.
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Fr John Therry and Fr Philip Conolly were the Australia's first most important priests, who arrived in Sydney. Fr Therry opens the doors first Catholic school in Parramatta and asks Governor Macquarie for land, where the first catholic church was built.
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The foundation stone was laid by governor Macquarie for The St Mary’s Chapple and the stone was blessed by Fr Therry. The site was located at a barren brickfield and Sydney's convict barracks. This land was known as a bad and without value. Father Connolly builds the first Catholic Church in Tasmania.
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Penal laws was stopping Catholics having government places.
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The newly built St Mary's Chapel is now declared as St Mary's Cathedral
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Archbishop Polding declares, Fr James Goold as the first bishop of Melbourne in the second bishops. This ritual of turning into a bishop took place at Sydney's St Mary's Cathedral.
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Fr James Quinn is declared to sails from Ireland land to Australia to become the first Bishop of Brisbane
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Fire ripped through the St Mary's Cathedral. Although the St Mary cathedral was mostly made out of stone it still couldn’t hold up it collapsed to the ground. Archdeacon McEnroe starts a fundraising for a brand new cathedral designed by William Wardell, the architect who also created the St John's College at the University of Sydney and St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne.
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1868 Archbishop Polding lays the foundation stone for a new St Mary's Cathedral.
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Archbishop Polding dies at Sacred Heart Presbytery in Sydney aged 85. Roger Bede Vaughan becomes Archbishop of Sydney.
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Archbishop Vaughan dies when he was having a trip to England. Of the 15,200 Catholic children in Sydney, more than 12,500 went to Archdiocese schools.
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the first-ever Plenary Council of the Australian Catholic Church is held in Sydney. The foundation stone for St Patrick's Seminary is also laid. Archbishop Moran is now a Cardinal Priest.
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St Patrick's Seminary College that started in 1885 opens in Manly.
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Mother Mary Mackillop dies
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James Scullin becomes Australia's first Catholic prime minister
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Archbishop Michael Kelly dies. Archbishop Gilroy becomes Archbishop of Sydney
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Pope Paul VI makes the first ever visit to Australia
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Cardinal Freeman dies. Thousands of Catholics and non-Catholics felling sad about his death. Archbishop Edward Bede Clancy who is the Archbishop of Goulburn and Canberra becomes Archbishop of Sydney
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Pope John Paul II visits Australia.
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Pope Benedict XVI makes his first visit to Australia when the Archdiocese hosts World Youth Day in Sydney in 2008. WYD08 was a huge success and because of that they made a social networking website, the website was named Xt3 was created for young people. It was the fastest growing website in the world for catholic people.
