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First Mass
La Perouse and Abbe Mones travel to Botany Bay
Celebrate by having the first Mass in Australain Territory -
Christian Brothers
Edmund Ignatius Rice started the Christian Brothers foundation -
Fr James Dixon-Mass
Irish Catholic Priest
Conducted the first public mass which Philip Gidley King was so pleased he gave Dixon a salary of £60 ($112.22) Born: 1758 (Ireland)
Death: 4 January, 1840 -
The Castle Hill Rebellion
First uprising in Australia
Started by Irish convicts to gain power over the British in NSW
39 convicts died
Resulted in the Martial Law Punishments being put in place -
Rum Rebellion
NSW
NSW Corp's men and officers rebelled against the Sydney Government House
Target was Governor William Bligh -
Period: to
Fr. Jeremiah O’Flynn
Landed in Australia
Publicized the need for the Catholic Church in Australia.
Deported because British Colonial opposes Born: 25 December, 1788 (Ireland)
Death: 8 February, 1831 -
Fr John + Fr Philip Connolly
The first official Priest come to Australia -
Fr John Therry-First School
First Catholic school in Australia
By Fr John Therry (Irish Catholic Priest)
Hunter Street, Parramatta
31 students overall -
First Church
First Catholic Church made in Richmond, Tasmania -
Fr. Ullathorne
Comes to Sydney as Vicar-General -
John Bede Polding- 1st Bishop
The first Roman Catholic bishop in Australia Born: 18 November, 1794 (England)
Death: 16 March, 1877 -
John Bede Polding- 1st Archbishop
The first Archbishop of Sydney -
St Mary’s Cathedral
Polding turns into an Archbishop making St Mary's Chapel into a Cathedral -
St Mary’s Cathedral
Burnt in a fire
Completely wrecked -
St Mary’s Cathedral
New foundation laid down
(This is the present Cathedral) -
Marist Brothers
Arrived in Australia
Set up many school in Sydney
Group of men
Gave care, shelter, education to all young people
Didn't discriminate -
St Mary’s Cathedral
Opened
Not finished -
St Mary’s Cathedral
Cardinal Patrick Moran officially opens it
Largest Cathedral in Australia