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The first-ever mass to be held in Australia was on May 15th 1803 in Port Jackson. This mass was done to help people bring over their religious beliefs to their new home. -
The first Catholic church to ever be built was in Tasmania which now goes by the name of St John's Church. -
In the year of 1835, John Bede Polding became Australia’s first-ever Catholic Bishop. -
On the 9th of July 1847, Alipius Goold was appointed the first archbishop of Melbourne. -
The Australian Catholic Church is split into seven Archdioceses and twenty-one dioceses. The Archdioceses and dioceses are gathered into groups of provinces. -
On the 14th of April 1859, James Quinn was then appointed Bishop of Brisbane. -
The Mercy Sister was established in Queensland, they came along with Bishop James Quinn at the time. -
On the 29th of June 1865, a fire struck St. Mary's Cathedral. The remaining parts of the cathedral standing were the bell tower, Pugin façade, and the part of the northeast transept. -
In 1866 Mary McKillop and Fr. Julian Tenison Woods founded Sisters of St. Joseph (the Josephites), which was the first nunnery to be established in Australia -
The year 1857 was the year where they began building the Cathedral. By 1871, the Cathedral was completed. -
In the year of 1906, the Missionaries were put in charge of the Darwin Diocese.
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Mary suffered a stroke which eventually led to her peaceful death in Alma Cottage, North Sydney. As she always said however, "find happiness in making others happy" -
1916 was the year where the Catholic Women’s League was established. The ladies that were a part of the league helped out locally and internationally. -
In the year of 1924 is when Fr. William Hackett SJ and Archbishop Daniel Mannix established the Central Catholic Library. -
Archbishop Gilroy travelled around the globe as well as Australia including the remote areas: mainly by the use of a camel. -
State aid to Catholic schools resumed in the year of 1962 where many Catholics protested. -
He passed away on 6 November 1963 in Melbourne. Archbishop Mannix was a big influence as well as a well-celebrated archbishop, he served as a bishop for 46 years. -
Australian Catholic University opened on the 1st of January 1991. ACU has campuses all around Australia including Adelaide, Ballarat, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, North Sydney and Strathfield. They also have an international campus in Rome. -
Vianney college was initially made for theologists, where men would practice priesthood. -
Dr George Pell was appointed as bishop of Melbourne in 1985 and was then given the title of Bishop of Scala, Italy until the year of 1996. "Suffering and evil will not have the last word" is a famous quote by the doctor
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