The Catholic Church in Australia

By huxley
  • First Catholics Arrived in Australia

    First Catholics Arrived in Australia

    The first Catholics in Australia arrived with captian cook as convicts, only 10% were catholic and were born in Ireland
  • First Catholic Priests

    First Catholic Priests

    First Catholic Priests arrived in a collonly as convicts
  • Father John joseph Therry and Philip Connolly-chaplains

    Father John joseph Therry and Philip Connolly-chaplains

    Father John joseph Therry and Philip Connolly-chaplains appointed by government
  • catholic schools

    catholic schools

    By 1833 there were about 10 catholic schools in the country

  • Education acts

    All states passed education acts removing state aid, with no money to pay staff, the bishops appealed to religious orders in Ireland and other European countries/Nuns/Sisters and brothers

  • Australian Born Priests

    Australian born Priests outnumbered the Irish Priests
  • Baby Boomers

    Baby Boomers

    catholic increased (baby boomers 50’s-no contraception- against Gods design.) Numbers of brothers, nuns and priests also increased and Catholics improved their socio-economic status. Rosmary beads were common and high level attendance of mass