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By Piersonr01

  • La Perouse enters Botany Bay and his chaplain, Abbe Mones, celebrates the first Mass within Australian territory

  • First Irish convicts transported to Botany Bay

  • Fr James Dixon and two other priests arrested as part of the 1798 Irish Rebellion are transported to New South Wales as convicts

  • Castle Hill Rebellion results in Fr Dixon’s permit to conduct Mass being withdrawn

  • Fr John Therry and Fr Philip Conolly, Australia’s first official priests, arrive in Sydney.

  • Fr Daniel Power lands in Sydney to replace Fr Therry as official chaplain to the growing colony.

  • Fr Power dies

  • Bishop Polding arrives in Hobart and a short time later sails for Sydney. His Vicariate covers the whole of Australia including Tasmania. The newly-completed St Mary’s Chapel is consecrated as St Mary’s Cathedral.

  • Archbishop Polding consecrates Fr Francis Murphy as Bishop of Adelaide in the first episcopal conscration to take place in Australia.

  • Mary MacKillop becomes the first Sister and Mother Superior of the Sisters of St Joseph

  • The Archbishop’s Official Residence at Manly is completed

  • Death of Mother Mary MacKillop

  • World War I declared. Catholics become influential in the Australian Labor Party

  • Archbishop Michael Kelly dies. Archbishop Gilroy becomes Archbishop of Sydney

  • Bishop Freeman is consecrated by Cardinal Gilroy

  • Pope Paul VI makes the first-ever Papal visit to Australia

  • Rome declares that Australia is no longer a mission country

  • Pope John Paul II visits Australia.

  • Restoration

  • Pope Benedict XVI makes his first visit to Australia when the Archdiocese of Sydney hosts World Youth Day 2008