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The Catholic population had risen by some 70%, but Islam's had tripled, and Catholic and non-Catholic Christians claimed a similar number of adherents. Christians overall still outnumbered Muslims, however, and Catholicism remained by far the largest Christian denomination.
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In 1584 Pope Gregory XIII founded the Maronite College in Rome, which flourished under Jesuit administration into the 20th century and became a training centre for scholars and leaders. Hardy martial mountaineers, the Maronites valiantly preserved their liberty and folkways.
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The Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, also known as the Christian Brothers, French Christian Brothers, Lasallian Brothers, or De La Salle Brothers is a Roman Catholic religious teaching congregation, founded in France by Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, and now based in Rome, Italy.
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Mary Reibey née Haydock was an English-born merchant, shipowner and trader who was transported to Australia as convict. After gaining her freedom, she was viewed by her contemporaries as a community role model and became legendary as a successful businesswoman in the colony.
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The Wik peoples are an Indigenous Australian group of people from an extensive zone on western Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, speaking several different languages. ... The first ethnographic study of the Wik people was undertaken by the Queensland born anthropologist Ursula McConnel.
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The Congregation of Christian Brothers is a worldwide religious community within the Catholic Church, founded by Edmund Rice. Their first school was opened in Waterford, Ireland, in 1802.
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Fr James Dixon hosted the first public catholic mass. This helped the catholics that had newly arrived to Australia celebrate their religion and feel at peace.
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In 1804 Irish convects wanting to return to Ireland to help fight in the rebellion. The battle took place when a group of troops caught convects who had escaped from castle hill convect farm. There plans were to steal weapons from small farms across Parramatta and Sydney.
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Officers and men of the New South Wales Corps marched to Government House in Sydney in an act of rebellion against Governor William Bligh.
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Many religious communities have the term Sisters of Charity in their name. Some Sisters of Charity communities refer to the Vincentian tradition, or in America to the tradition of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, but others are unrelated.
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William and Cathrie Davis offered to donated there land at Church Hill. Later in 1840 he allowed his house to be used for catholic prayer
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In 1817, St. Marcellin Champagnat, a priest (Marist Father, SM) from France, founded the Marist Brothers, with the goal of educating young people, especially those most neglected.
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John Therry played a major role in Australian catholicism. He also built multiple churches around australia and he is very well known for building St Bedes in Appin.
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Their denomination benefited little from the Church Act which gave Tasmania its wondrous legacy of Georgian and early Victorian churches, rectories and parish halls.
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Irish immigrants came to England fleeing poverty and the Great Famine in Ireland. By 1861, 600,000 people, or 3 per cent of the English population, had been born in Ireland. Three-quarters of Irish immigrants were unskilled labourers or farm workers. ... In 1830, the British army was 40 per cent Irish.
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Patrick Francis Moran was the third Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney and the first cardinal appointed from Australia.
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The Religious Sisters of Mercy are members of a religious institute of Catholic women founded in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland, by Catherine McAuley. As of 2019, the institute has about 6200 sisters worldwide, organized into a number of independent congregations.
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St Vincent DePaul society’s members and volunteers reach out to the most vulnerable in our community through out there conferences
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The Act was strongly opposed by members of the Anglican Church, particularly Bishop Broughton, as it formalised government support for the Catholic and Presbyterian churches and weakened the position of the Anglican church in the colony.
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the oldest Catholic church in Victoria, Australia. The main body of the church (with various later additions) is one of very few buildings in central Melbourne which was built before the Victorian gold rush of 1851.
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A prospector discovered flakes of gold in a water whole near Bathurst. And then gold was found in Victoria and all over Australia
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Gold prospectors in Ballarat who sought various reforms, notably the abolition of mining licenses clashed with government forces.
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The congregation was the first religious congregation to be founded in Australia.
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When the royals got to Australia
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Daniel Patrick Mannix was an Irish-born Catholic bishop. Mannix was the Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years and one of the most influential public figures in 20th-century Australia.
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The Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, often called the "Josephites" or "Brown Joeys", were founded in Penola, South Australia, in 1866 by Mary MacKillop and the Rev. Julian Tenison Woods.
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The Marist Brothers arrived in Australia in 1872 at the invitation of the Archbishop of Sydney. The Brothers in Australia currently operate as two Provinces with centres in Sydney and Melbourne.
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The Presentation Sisters, officially the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, are a religious institute of Roman Catholic women founded in Cork, Ireland, by Venerable Nano Nagle in 1775.
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Caroline Chisholm was a 19th-century English humanitarian known mostly for her support of immigrant female and family welfare in Australia. She is commemorated on 16 May in the calendar of saints of the Church of England
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Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods, commonly referred to as Father Woods, was a Catholic priest and geologist, active in Australia. With Mary MacKillop, he co-founded the Congregation of Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart at Penola in 1866.
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Sir Norman Thomas Gilroy KBE was an Australian archbishop. He was the first Australian-born cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Mary Helen MacKillop RSJ was an Australian religious sister who has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church, as St Mary of the Cross. Of Scottish descent, she was born in Melbourne but is best known for her activities in South Australia.
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World War I was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria, usually known as B. A. Santamaria, was an Australian Roman Catholic anti-Communist political activist and journalist. He was a guiding influence in the founding of the Democratic Labor Party.
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The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across the world; in most countries, it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s.
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Native title is the recognition that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have rights and interests to land and waters according to their traditional law and customs as set out in Australian Law. Native Title is governed by the Native Title Act 1993
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The Australian Labor Party split of 1955 was a split within the Australian Labor Party along ethnocultural lines and about the position towards communism.
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Kathleen Mary Egan (1890-1977), Dominican Sister and educationist, was born on 16 December 1890 at The Rock, near Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, third child of Richard Egan, a railway stationmaster from Ireland, and his native-born wife Catherine, née Connors.
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Edward Koiki Mabo was an Indigenous Australian man from the Torres Strait Islands known for his role in campaigning for Indigenous land rights and in a landmark decision of the High Court of Australia
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Elizabeth Durack Clancy CMG, OBE was a Western Australian artist and writer.
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Peter Norden grew up in leafy Hawthorn where as a young child he came under the influence of the Jesuits at their parish in Glenferrie Road. From the age of nine, he attended their oldest established secondary school in Australia, St Patrick’s College in East Melbourne. Five weeks after his eighteenth birthday, he joined the Jesuit Order and began studies for the priesthood.
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Fletcher was ordained a priest in 1956 at St Mary's Cathedral and, in 1957, was appointed to teach at Chevalier College, near Bowral. Many of his students remained devoted to him in adulthood. One of them, former NSW premier John Fahey, said Fletcher inspired in him "a wonderful sense of humanity and justice
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Edward Bede Clancy AC was an Australian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal. He was the seventh Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney from 1983 to 2001. He was made Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Vallicella in 1988.