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The first Marist Brothers arrived in Australia in 1872 and established schools in Sydney. In 1929 the Brothers established their first school in Brisbane at Marist College Rosalie and then in 1940 at Marist College Ashgrove. -
Moran was appointed to Australia on the 25 January 1884 and arrived on 8 September 1884. He was created Cardinal-Priest on 27 July 1885 of the title of St Susanna.
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On 8 May 1893, the Maronite Patriarch sent two priests to Sydney, having realized the need to establish a Maronite Mission in Australia. In 1894, a Maronite chapel was set up in Waterloo and served until 1897. On 10 January 1897, Saint Maroun's church in Redfern was dedicated.
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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. By 1932 a De La Salle school was established in Roma, Queensland, and in 1955 they set up a school and community in Scarborough.
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Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria, usually known as B. A. Santamaria (14 August 1915 – 25 February 1998), was an Australian Roman Catholic anti-Communist political activist and journalist. He was a guiding influence in the founding of the Democratic Labor Party (DLP).
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Consecrated titular archbishop of Pharsalus in 1912, he arrived in Melbourne in the following year as coadjutor archbishop, becoming archbishop of Melbourne in 1917.
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Returning to Australia he nominated for the priesthood: his studies took him to Rome, where he gained a Doctorate in Divinity and was ordained in 1923. Gilroy rose steadily in the Catholic Church and was appointed Archbishop of Sydney in 1940 and Australia's first Cardinal in 1945