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About 30% of the 759 convicts on the first fleet were baptised Catholics. Most of the convicts on the first fleet were lrish that had very little Catholic faith or interest about it. In the middle of 1787 and 1852 even more the 150,000 convicts were transferred to eastern Australia most of them were Irish the amount of them was about 50,000 -
The first fleet arrives in New South Wales -
Governor Philip orders every convict to go to church -
The first Irish convicts arrive in New South Wales -
Catholic settlers arrived at paramatta and asked governor Philip for a Catholic Church -
Father Dixon was arrested in the Irish rebellion -
Father Dixon arrives in New South Wales -
Father Dixon did his first mass -
Father Jeremiah arrives to minister to convict Catholics but he does not have the affisiant sanction or. He will be arrested -
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Father John therry and father Philip Australia’s first priests arrive in Sydney -
