History Of Catholics In Australia

Aboriginal religious practices

Dec 31, 1787

Pre 1788 the aborigines practiced their own religion and rituals

300 Catholics arrive in Australia on first fleet

Jan 1, 1788

300 catholics came to australia as convicts on the first fleet and first fleet claims aborigine land

Irish Rebellion

May 24, 1798

the irish rebelled against the church of England for four months from the 24th of may to the 24th of september

First Public Mass in Australia

Jan 1, 1803

The mass was ran for the catholics and was ran by Father Dixon

Castle Hill Rebellion

Oct 7, 1804

The convicts had an army of 400+ whereas the army had 57 and still managed to defeat the convicts. This caused masses to be banned yet again

Priests Arrived in Sydney

Oct 7, 1820

Catholic numbers 6000 to 16000

Oct 7, 1833

First Vicar-General of NSW

Oct 7, 1834

Father William Ullathrone was appointed first vicar-general of NSW and his term lasted 38 years

First catholic mission in australia on Stradbroke Island

Oct 7, 1843

Stradbroke island receives first mission from the catholics giving help to the native aboriginal people

Irish priest sent to perth

Oct 7, 1843

Irish priest sent to perth to minister convicts and establish mission for aboriginal people

Rome Sent assistance

Oct 7, 1849

Rome Sent assitance to maintain church in Perth although making the two priests compete for control of the church

Victorias population of catholics is 20 000 with 20 churches, 34 priests and 80 schools

Oct 7, 1860

South Australia has 20 churches and 19 schools

Oct 7, 1864

Church

Oct 7, 1868

Sisters of mercy has 8 congregations
Marist Brothers had established secondary school
Jesuits have 2 schools
Christian brothers start work in Victoria

Queensland Statistics

Oct 7, 1871

Queensland Has 30 priests, 28 schools and 30 churches against a colonial government hostile to Catholicism

Education Becomes 'free, compulsory and secular'

Oct 7, 1872

Government makes schooling free and compulsory

Financial Assitance to non-goverment schools in Australia ceased

Oct 7, 1880

No more money was given to non-government schools and had to work for money independently

815 teaching sisters in Australia

Oct 7, 1880

Federation

Oct 7, 1880

colonies move towards becoming a federation in the 1880s-90s

Australia becomes a Nation

Jan 1, 1901

Australia linked all colonies together to form a federation

5000 teaching sisters

Oct 7, 1910

Catholics being attacked

Oct 7, 1914

Attacked for not volunteering for war making them 'unpatriotic'

First Catholic Radio Station

Oct 7, 1928

10 333 sisters and over 1000 brothers

Oct 7, 1930

Catholics established in Australia, no longer outsiders

Oct 7, 1940

Catholic Proportion

Oct 7, 1971

proportion of catholics in Australia is 27% after being 17% in 1933

Pope John Paul II Went to Alice Spring

Oct 7, 1986

Pope John Paul II travelled to alice springs to speak to the aborigine and torres strait islander people to reconciliate

Reconciliation between aboriginal and non-aboriginal people after Native title act passed.

Oct 7, 1993

Census shows catholics are 25.3 percent of the Australian population

Oct 7, 2011