Timeline of significant events and challenges in early Catholic community

By hsullivan2

  • the first fleet

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    Timeline of significant events and challenges in early Catholic community

  • catholic setters petition the governor for a priest

  • catholics in australlia

  • the first two priessts arrive in australia

  • the mass allowed to be celbrated

  • first free priest arrived

  • first offcial catholic priests arrive

  • catholics in new south wales

    by the late1820s most of the catholics were still convicts or exconvicts

  • emanciption act in england

    this act that catholics were no long and could hold important er persecuted

  • firt importand offcials in new south wales who were catholics arrived

    the emancipation act ment that powerful people in government in new south wales could now be catholics.

  • bishop polding applding

    new south wales now had 20,000 catholics so a bishop was needed

  • church act

  • caroline chisolm championed the cause of women and emigrants

  • myall creek massacres white settlers killed a group ofo aborigines at myall creek

  • polding appointed archbishop

  • first priest arrives in brisbane