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George Morley
George Morley was Canon of Christ Church, and a royalist. In 1645, he was a royalist delegate to the peace negotiations. In 1648, he was deprived of his canonry and his living. -
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Timeline of the catholic church in Australia
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Fr James Dixon
Irish priest transported to Sydney after taking part in the Irish uprising of 1798. On 15 May 1803 he conducted the first public Roman Catholic mass and marriage in Sydney. -
First public catholic mass
The first public catholic mass was a signal event as an act of emancipation for Catholic worshippers. The mass was celebrated by fr james Dixion. -
The castle hill uprising
The rebellion was an attempt by a group of Irish convicts. There attempt was to overthrow British rule in New South Wales and return to Ireland. -
The Rum rebellion
The Rum rebellion of 1808 was a coup d’état in the then-British penal colony of the New South Wales, staged by the New South Wales Corps in order to depose Governor William Bligh -
jeremiah o'flynn
Priest who helped to publicize the needs of Catholics in New South Wales and to influence the British government in 1820 to allow the first official Roman Catholic missionaries to be sent to Australia. -
The beginning of catholic education
The first Catholic schools, humble as they were, sprang up in the Sydney area in the 1830s. They were run mainly by lay people. The first Catholic school in Victoria, established in Melbourne in 1840 by Father Patrick Geoghagan -
John Bede Polding
first Roman Catholic bishop in Australia (from 1835), where eight years later he became the first archbishop of Sydney. Polding joined the Benedictine order in 1811 and was ordained priest in 1819. -
St Mary’s Cathedral
St Mary’s cathedral was the first Catholic church in Australia and is the first land granted to the Catholic Church in Australia. It took 60 years to build and later it burned down in a fire -
Establishment of the catholic church in Tasmania
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Fr john therry
Catholic priest who was one of the first allowed to minister in the colony, and who influenced Catholic church-building, education and civil rights, as well as being a parish priest at Windsor and Balmain. -
Eureka stockade
The Eureka Stockade was caused by a disagreement over what gold miners felt were unfair laws and policing of their work by government. Police invaded the mines to enforce the licensing laws, in late November 1854. The miners refused to cooperate, and burned their licences and stoned police. -
William davis
In 1865 Davis grew an excellent wheat crop from the seed of a newly introduced, rust-resistant strain from Adelaide. He owned successful racehorses and hunters and judged blood horses at important shows. -
Arrival of the Marist Brothers
The Marist Brothers arrived in Australia in 1872 at the invitation of the Archbishop of Sydney. The Brothers in Australia currently operate as two Province with centers in Sydney and Melbourne.
