early settlement

  • arrival of first fleet

    first europeans come to australia
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    early settlement

  • mary reiby

    mary reiby née haydock was an english-born merchant, shipowner and trader who was transported to australia as a convict after gaining her freedom she was viewed by her contemporaries as a community role model and became legendary as a successful businesswomen in the colony
  • christian brothers

    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
  • First Public Catholic Mass

    First Public Catholic Mass
    The irish priest went to sydney after taking part in the irish uprising on 1798. May 15 1803 he conducted the first public catholic mass and marriage
  • the castle hill uprising

    the castle hill uprising
    The irish convicts wanted to return to Ireland to help fight against the rebelion
  • the rum rebellion

    the rum rebellion
    the officers and men of the New South Wales Corps marched to Government House in Sydney in an act of rebellion against Governor William Bligh. Bligh was arrested and the colony was placed under military rule. 400 soldiers marched the goverment house and arrested Bligh
  • sister of charity

    many religious communities have the term sisters of charity in their name. some sisters of charity communities refer to the vinccentian tradition, or in america to the tradition of saint elizabeth ann seton but others are unrelated
  • william davies

    william and catherine davis offered to donated their land at church hill. later in 1840 he allowed his house to be used for catholic prayer
  • establishment of the catholic church in tasmania

    their denomination benefited little from the church act which gave tasmania it wonderous legacy of georgian and early victoria churches rectories and parish halls
  • john therry

    john therry played a major role in australia catholicism. he also built multiple churches around australia and he is very well known for building st bedes in appin
  • st mary cathedral

    st mary cathedral
    The Cathedral Church and Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Mother of God, Help of Christians is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney and the seat of the Archbishop of Sydney, currently Anthony Fisher
  • sister of mercy

    the religious sisters of mercy are members of a religious institute or catholic women founded in 1831 dublin ireland by catherine mcauley as of 2019 the institute has about 6200 sisters worldwide organised into a number of independent congregations
  • st vincent depaul

    st vincent depaul society members and volenteers reach out to the most vulnerable in our community through out there conference
  • church acts

    church act or 1836 provided government subsidies for clerical salaries and for new church construction
  • the beginning of catholic educational

    convicted for “complicity” in the irish rebellion
  • st francis church

    the first mass was held in the completed nave on 22 may 1842 mary mackillop
  • gold rushes

    workers moved from elsewhere in australia and overseas or wheee gold had been discovered
  • Eureka Stockade

    Eureka Stockade
    The Eureka Stockade was caused by a disagreement over what gold miners felt were unfair laws and policing of their work by government. Police invaded the mines to enforce the licensing laws, in late November 1854. they refused to cooperate and burned there licenses and stoned police
  • good sams

    is a roman catholic congregation of religious women commenced by beds polding
  • establishment of the sisters of st joseph

    the sisters of saint joesph of the sacred heart are a religious order of women, originally founded in south australia in 1866 by sister mary mackillop
  • presentation sister

    they came to “the ends of the earth” in australia in 1866 in victoria in 1873 and in dandegong in 1912
  • fr julian tension woods

    he help mary mackillop start her school at penola
  • cardinal moran

    He was appointed vice-rector at the Irish College and also took the chair of Hebrew at Propaganda Fide. He was also some-time vice-rector of the Scots College in Rome. In 1866 Moran was appointed secretary to his mother's half-brother, Cardinal Paul Cullen of Dublin. Moran was also appointed professor of scripture at Clonliffe College, Dublin. In 1869 he accompanied Cardinal Cullen to the First Vatican Council, a council also attended by Melbourne's then first archbishop, James Alipius Goold.
  • arrival of the marist brothers

    the marist brothers were invited by the archbishop of sydney to assist developing school for young australian people. boarding school would soon be set up in country towns to ensure remote students would also have access to education
  • Archbishop mannix

    Mannix was president of St Patrick's College, Maynooth, the Irish national seminary, from 13 October 1903 to 10 August 1912 when he was succeeded by the Rt Reverend John F. Hogan
  • world war 1

    World War was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. Contemporaneously known as the Great War or "the war to end all wars",[7] it led to the mobilisation of more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, making it one of the largest wars in history.
  • Conscription Debate

    During the second half of World War I, the First Australian Imperial Force experienced a shortage of men as the number of men volunteering to fight overseas declined and the casualty rate increased. At the time, military service within the Commonwealth of Australia and its territories was compulsory for Australian men,
  • federation

    A federation is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central federal government (federalism). In a federation, the self-governing status of the component states, as well as the division of power between them and the central government, is typically constitutionally entrenched and may not be altered by a unilateral decision of either party, the states or the federal political body.
  • Immigration from Britain and Ireland

    Irish migration to Great Britain has occurred from the earliest recorded history to the present. There has been a continuous movement of people between the islands of Ireland and Great Britain due to their proximity. This tide has ebbed and flowed in response to politics, economics and social conditions of both places.
  • The Depression Years

    Australia suffered badly during the period of the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Depression began with the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and rapidly spread worldwide. As in other nations, Australia suffered years of high unemployment, poverty, low profits, deflation, plunging incomes, and lost opportunities for economic growth and personal advancement.
  • Bob Santamaria

    In 1936 he co-founded The Catholic Worker, a newspaper influenced by the social teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, particularly the encyclical Rerum novarum of Pope Leo XIII. He was the first editor of the paper which declared itself opposed to both communism and capitalism. Although the group campaigned for the rights of workers and against what it saw as the excesses of capitalism, Santamaria came to see the Communist Party of Australia
  • cardinal gilroy

    Gilroy was created a cardinal on 18 February 1946, and was assigned the title of becoming cardinal-priest of Santi Quattro Coronati, becoming the first Australian-born member of the College of Cardinals. He was the first Roman Catholic cardinal to receive a knighthood since the English Reformation.
  • De La Salle brothers

    the society was recognized by the pope, under the official title of "Brothers of the Christian Schools".[8] La Salle was canonised as a saint on 15 May 1900. In 1950 Pope Pius XII declared him to be the "Special Patron of All Teachers of Youth in the Catholic Church". As religious, members take the three usual vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.The Institutes headquarters is in Rome, Italy. The order has five global regions
  • The Labor Party Split

    The Australian Labor Party split of 1955 was a split within the Australian Labor Party along ethnocultural lines and about the position towards communism. Key players in the split were the federal opposition leader H. V. "Doc" Evatt and B. A. Santamaria, the dominant force behind the "Catholic Social Studies Movement" or "the Movement".
  • Establishment of the Maronite Eparchy

    Due to a large emigration of Lebanese Maronite Christians in mid / late 19th century, Maronite Patriarch in 1889 decided that pastoral ministry among the Lebanese Christians in Sydney will be established. In this regard, the Maronite priests Abdallah Yazbeck and Joseph Dahdah were to work for the Diaspora's community in Sydney and reached on 8 May 1893 the Sydney's port.