History Of the Church

By Jazz xD

  • First Fleet

  • First Mass Celebrated by Fr James Dixon

  • Irish Uprising led to banning of Catholic Worship

  • Fr Jeremiah O'Flynn conducted illigal worship services,

    was deported and left the Blessed Sacrament at a Sydney Home.

  • Fr Therry & Fr Conolly in the colony with Govt Approval

  • First Catholic Schools

  • First Catholic Bishop in Australia (John Bede Polding)

  • First Religous Order- Sisters of Charity

  • Caroline Chisholm

    1838-1846

  • Mary MacKillop with Fr Julian Tennison Woods founded the Sr of St Joseph