Catholics In Australia

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  • First Fleet Arrives in Botany Bay

    One tenth of all the Convicts that came to Australia were Irish convicts, fkeeing for their lives after political persecution in their home land.
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    Catholics In Australia from 1788

  • Father Dixon Holds First Mass In This Year

  • Rum Rebellion In NSW, Successfull Overthrow of Governent

  • Father Jeremiah O'Flynn Becomes Prefect-Apostolic of New Holland

  • Father O'Flynn Deported After Colonial Opposition to his Appointment

  • Fathers Therry and Conolly Become the First Official Catholic Priests to Arrive

  • The First Catholic Church is Constructed at Richmond, Tasmania

  • Father Ullathorne Arrives into Sydney as the First Vicar-General

  • Bede Polding is Made Australia's First Catholic Bishop

  • James Alepius Goold becomes first Catholic bishop of Melbourne

  • The Catholic Church in Australia is divided into Provinces and Dioceses

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

  • St. Vincent's Hospital opens in Sydney

  • St. Mary's Cathedral Destroyed by a Fire

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

  • Christian Brothers arrive in Melbourne

  • Bishops' Pastoral Statement complains of injustice to Aborigines

  • Colonial governments end state-aid to Church schools

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

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

  • Archbishop Moran made Cardinal

  • St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne opened

  • French Missionaries of the Sacred Heart arrive in Australia

  • Archbishop Gilroy becomes first Australian Cardinal

  • Archbishop James Robert Knox appointed Archbishop of Melbourne

  • Paul VI visits Australia

  • Paul VI establishes Maronite diocese in Australia

  • John Paul II visits Australia

  • John Paul II establishes a Melkite diocese in Australia

  • John Paul II visits Australia for Beatification of Mary McKillop

  • Opening of Corpus Christi seminary

  • St Mary’s Cathedral Sydney completed

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