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Lay Couple Mary and Michael Burge establishing the first catholic school funded interiorly by money collected by local catholic settlers the school was located not far from where St Stephen's Cathedral stands today.
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The settlement had its first permanent Catholic Church called St Stephens
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St Stephens was proclaimed the cathedral of the diocese after formerly separating from NSW to become know the colony of QLD
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Bishop James Quinn 5 priest and 6 Irish sisters of mercy made there way to Brisbane aboard the Yarrara Bishop Quinn was surprised by the poverty by the large Irish population and committed to raising the economic and social stats of Catholics through education
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1870 was a time of growth on the back divide between the Irish catholic and English protester came a push to church and state separate laws were passed to provide free compulsory and secular education to children and to remove state funding for all religious schools.
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Archbishop James Chui a visionary with a enteprenruial spirt could see the growing need for catholic school, he invested in tracks of land around Brisbane and by 1930 had established 28 new schools
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Father Burner o shay was appointed as diocese inspector in 1943
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In 1948 the role of father Bernard O'shae renamed as diocese director of Catholic education
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The 1960s was a decade of strain for thee Catholic education lay teachers were battling with staffing condition and were only equipped with 2 year of training before being put in the class room
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the appointment of Archbishop Patrick Mary O'Donnell to Brisbane saw the formation of an Arch diocesan education which recommended the formation of a Catholic Education Office this was the beginning of Catholic Education as we know it today
