Religious Groups in Australia in the Early Colony

  • The First Fleet

  • First Mass

    Celebrated by Fr James Dixon
  • Irish Uprising

    Led to banning of Catholic Worship
  • Fr Jeremiah O'Flyn

    Conducted illegal worship services which was deported and left the Blessed Sacrament and a Sydney home
  • Fr Therry and Fr Connelly

    In colony with government approval
  • First Catholic Bishop in Australia

    John Bede Polding
  • First Catholic Schools

  • First Religious Order

    Sisters of Charity

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