catholic church in australia

  • Mary Reiby

    Mary Reibey née Haydock was an English-born merchant, shipowner and trader who was transported to Australia as convict. After gaining her freedom,
  • arrival of the first fleet

    first europeans come to australia
  • first catholic mass

    fr dixson is allowed to say mass for catholic
  • castle hill uprising

    irish convicts rebelled against english soldiers
  • the Rum Rebellion

    Governor William Bligh was kick out by the goverment because he take all their rum
  • St Mary’s Cathedral

    first catholic church
  • Establishment of the Catholic Church in Tasmania

    the arrival of Father Philip Connolly
  • sister of mercy

    The Religious Sisters of Mercy are members of a religious institute of Catholic women founded in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland,
  • Church Acts

    Church Act of 1836 provided Government subsidies for clerical salaries and for new church construction.
  • sister of charity

    the first Sisters of Charity arrived in Australia to offer care and assistance to female prisoners in Parramatta
  • the beginning of Catholic Education

    convicted for "complicity" in the Irish Rebellion.
  • Christian Brothers

    Three Christian Brothers came to Sydney from Ireland in 1843 at the behest of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith in Rome.
  • 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 to where gold had been discovered.
  • eureka stockade

    that where the gold diggers complain about the gold tax
  • good sams

    is a Roman Catholic congregation of religious women commenced by Bede Polding
  • Mary Mackillop

    started her first her school in 1866. austalia first saint
  • Fr Julian Tenison Woods

    he help mary mckillop start her school at Penola
  • Presentation Sisters

    They came to “the ends of the earth” in Australia in 1866, in Victoria in 1873 and in Dandenong in 1912.
  • Establishment of the Sisters of St Joseph

    The Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart are a religious order of women, originally founded in South Australia in 1866, by Sister Mary MacKillop.
  • Establishment of the Sisters of St Joseph:

    found by mary mackillop
  • arrival of the Marist Brothers

    the Marist Brothers were invited by the Archbishop of Sydney to assist in developing schools for young Australian people.Boarding schools would soon be set up in country towns to ensure remote students would also have access to education.
  • Marist Brothers and Fathers

    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 (administrative units) with centers in Sydney and Melbourne.
  • Archbishop Mannix

    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.
  • Kathleen Mary Egan

    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.
  • Establishment of the Maronite Eparchy

    Maronite Patriarch sent two priests to Sydney, having realized the need to establish a Maronite Mission in Australia.
  • Federation

    The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia.
  • De La Salle brothers

    the De La Salle Brothers is a worldwide religious teaching congregation within the Catholic Church. The De La Salle Brothers arrived in Australia in 1906 to establish Catholic schools.
  • Cardinal Moran

    Moran was determined to have all Catholic children in schools staffed by religious Orders. By 1911 more than three-quarters of the Catholic children in Sydney of primary-school age were in his system, and he had laid the basis for a similar secondary system.
  • Immigration from Britain and Ireland

    Emigration from Ireland began as early as 1603, when people immigrated to areas such as continental Europe, the islands of the Caribbean, the British colonies, and other parts of the British Isles.
  • World War 1

    Australia's involvement in the First World War began when Britain and Germany went to war on 4 August 1914, and both Prime Minister Joseph Cook and Opposition Leader Andrew Fisher.
  • Conscription Debate

    A government policy for conscription would have forced eligible Australian men into military service overseas
  • Bob 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.
  • Elizabeth Durack

    Elizabeth Durack Clancy CMG, OBE was a Western Australian artist and writer.
  • The Depression Years

    The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929 which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors.
  • fr John Bresnan

    He played one game with the first eighteen, but was carted off ten minutes into the first quarter. In 1937, his last year at Kilmore, Geelong won the premiership. When the victory was announced he led a parade up and down the main street of the town with his fellow students. Brother Hilary, the Principal, was not impressed and thought it most inappropriate for a man going on to the priesthood.
  • 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.
  • Caritas begins in Australia

    Caritas began in Australia in 1962 as the Catholic Church Relief Fund (CCRF), which became the Catholic Overseas Relief Committee in 1964. In 1996 the agency became Caritas Australia. The word Caritas comes from Latin, and means love and compassion.
  • white Australian policy

    the Whitlam Labor government definitively renounced the White Australia policy. In its place it established a policy of multiculturalism in a nation that is now home to migrants from nearly 200 different countries.
  • Edward Bede Clancy

    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.
  • Fr Frank Fletcher

    One of the founders of the Archdiocese of Sydney's Aboriginal Catholic Ministry (ACM) and one of the city's most well-known and beloved priestsIn the 1990s Fletcher went to Erskineville to work with the Kooris of South Sydney. With the late Mum Shirl (Smith) and others, he established the Aboriginal Catholic Ministry in 1989.
  • Mabo

    Mabo v Queensland (No 2) is an important decision of the High Court of Australia. The decision is notable for having recognised that some Indigenous Australians have proprietary rights to land, in a legal form of ownership referred to as "native title".
  • native title

    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
  • wik

    In 1996 the High Court found that native title could only be extinguished by a law or an act of the Government which shows clear and plain intention to extinguish native title and thus pastoral leases granted in Queensland did not extinguish title.
  • world youth

    world youth was a Catholic youth festival that started on 15 July and continued until 20 July 2008 in Sydney, Australia. It was the first World Youth Day held in Australia and the first World Youth Day in Oceania.