The Catholic Church In Australia

First Mass Said on Australian Soil.

Nov 13, 1778

Christian Brothers Founded by Edmund Rice, Ireland.

Nov 13, 1802

First Public Mass, by Fr. Recevuer.

Nov 13, 1803

Father Thierry and Conolly, First Official Priests arrive.

Nov 13, 1820

Construction of First catholic church in Richmond, Tasmania

Nov 13, 1821

Fr. Ullathorne arrives in Sydney as Vicar-General

Nov 13, 1833

Bede Polding becomes Australia's first Catholic bishop

Nov 13, 1835

John Brady Appointed Bishop Of Perth

Nov 13, 1845

Archbishop Polding complains of injustice to Aborigines at NSW Parliamentary Committee Meeting.

Nov 13, 1845

Fr. Henry Backhaus begins to say Mass in a tent on the goldfields of Bendigo

Nov 13, 1852

St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney destroyed by fire

Nov 13, 1865

Christian Brothers arrive in Melbourne and Re-building of St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney begins

Nov 13, 1868

Completion of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Ballarat.

Nov 13, 1871

Roger Vaughan O.S.B becomes Archbishop of Sydney.

Nov 13, 1877

Archbishop Moran made Cardinal

Nov 13, 1885

Death of Mary McKillop

Nov 13, 1909

Arrival of Archbishop Daniel Mannix in Melbourne

Nov 13, 1913

Foundation of the Knights of the Southern Cross

Nov 13, 1922

Archbishop Mannix founds Corpus Christi College

Nov 13, 1923

National Eucharistic Congress, Melbourne

Nov 13, 1934

Japanese invasion of New Guinea, over 100 Catholics martyred during Japanese occupation for continuing to catechise.

Nov 13, 1942

Archbishop Gilroy becomes first Australian Cardinal

Nov 13, 1946

Bishop Gsell of Darwin awarded the Cross of the L‚gion d'Honneur by the French government

Nov 14, 1950

Death of Archbishop Mannix

Nov 14, 1963