religion in Australia

By melissasotiropoulos

  • Indigenous Australian (first religion)

  • Church of England/ Christianity (First Fleet)

    Christianity came to Australia with the First Fleet with the continued arrival of convicts and free settlers from Britain. The first group of British settlers and convicts included people from a variety of Christian denominations, usually reflecting the place of their birth.

  • Evangelical, Methodism, Judism

    First fleet arrivals

  • First Christian service

    First christian service held in a colony in NSW

  • First Priest arrived in colony

  • free settlers brought their own religions/beliefs.

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  • Lutherans came and Settled in South Australia

    These early Lutherans came from Germany to escape religious persecution and to start a new life.

  • arrival of many Chinese and Buddhists

    Discovery of Gold in Victoria and New South Wales

  • Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist, Congregationalist, Lutheran and Baptist Churches

    European settlers continued to bring their Christian traditions to Australia

  • Islam (Muslim) arrival

    Muslim Malays came to north Australia as indentured labourers in the pearl-shelling industry. They, too, formed longstanding relationships with the Indigenous people they met.

  • Population was mostly Anglo-Celtic, and 97% Christian

    Federation
  • Period: to

    Jewish regugees, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia

    Before the Second World War, between 7000 and 8000 Jewish regugees from Nazism, many from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia came to Australia, with the largest number, 5000, arriving in 1939

  • 2000 more Jews were deported

    British Government which saw them as “enemy aliens”. After the war many of these stayed in Australia. These refugees were the pioneer Jews in Australia and they laid the foundation for the varied Jewish communities that exist in Australia today.

  • Immigration from Christians from Europe

  • 20% No religion

    Census results