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Fr james Dixon
James Dixon, Roman Catholic priest, was born at Castlebridge, County Wexford, Ireland, into a family in comfortable circumstances. There he was arrested in 1798 under suspicion of taking part in the Irish rebellion and of having commanded a company of rebels at Tubberneering. -
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Mary Reiby
Mary Reibey née Haydock was an English-born merchant, shipowner and trader who was transported to Australia as convict. After gaining her freedom, she was viewed by her contemporaries as a community role model and became legendary as a successful businesswoman in the colony. -
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Fr Philip Connolly
Philip Conolly (1786-1839), Roman Catholic chaplain, was born in County Monaghan, Ireland. Educated for the priesthood, he was ordained at Maynooth, and did pastoral duties for five years in the Dublin archdiocese. He answered the call for volunteer missionaries when the British government consented to have Roman Catholic chaplains stationed at Botany Bay and the Derwent. -
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William Davis
Davis was, perhaps, the last surviving victim of those involved in the political commotions of 1798. He was exiled from Ireland to this Colony without even the "formality of a trial." The Irish Government had afterwards to procure a "Bill of Indemnity" for such "Illegal Proceedings." -
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Jeremiah o’flynn
Priest who helped to publicize the needs of Catholics in New South Wales and to influence the British government in 1820 to allow the first official Roman Catholic missionaries to be sent to Australia. Born. Kerry, Ireland. 25 Dec 1788. -
First British settlement
The British settlement began in Australia 26th of January of the year 1788. The first fleet with consists of 11 ships was guided by captain Arthur Phillip -
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Fr john therry
John Joseph Therry was born in Cork, Ireland in 1790. Ordained a priest in 1815, he was assigned to parish work in Dublin and then Cork.
Recommended by his own bishop as a capable, zealous and "valuable young man," Therry sailed from Cork under a senior priest, Father Philip Conolly, in the Janus, which carried more than a hundred prisoners. They arrived in Sydney, in May 1820, authorised by both church and state. -
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John bede polding
John Bede Polding (1794-1877), Catholic archbishop, was born on 18 November 1794 at Liverpool, England. His father was of Dutch descent and his mother came from the Brewer family, recusants since the sixteenth century. His family name was also spelt Poulden or Polten. His parents died and at 8 he was placed in the care of his uncle, Father Bede Brewer, president-general of the English Benedictine Congregation. -
First public catholic mass
On 15 May 1803, in vestments made from curtains and with a chalice made of tin, he conducted the first Catholic Mass in "New South Wales". The Irish-led Castle Hill Rebellion of 1804 alarmed the British authorities and Dixon's permission to celebrate Mass was revoked. -
Castle Hill convict rebellion
The Castle Hill rebellion of 1804 was a rebellion by convicts against the colonial authority of the British colony of New South Wales in the Castle Hill area, in Sydney. -
The rum rebellion
The Rum Rebellion of 1808 was a coup d'état in the then-British penal colony of New South Wales, staged by the New South Wales Corps in order to depose Governor William Bligh. -
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Caroline Chisholm
Caroline Chisholm was a 19th-century English humanitarian known mostly for her support of immigrant female and family welfare in Australia. She is commemorated on 16 May in the calendar of saints of the Church of England -
Marist Brothers and Fathers
The Marist Brothers is an international Religious Institute of the Catholic Church founded by a French Priest, St Marcellin Champagnat, in 1817 -
St Mary’s cathedral
The first officially appointed priests, Fathers Philip Conolly and John Joseph Therry arrive and funds are raised to build a chapel in the colony. -
Establishment of the Catholic Church in Tasmania
The Catholic Church became established in Tasmania, then Van Diemen's Land, in 1821 with the arrival of Father Philip Connolly. Even so, Catholicism has been influential, with various orders establishing schools, including ragged schools in poor areas, hospitals, aged care homes, hospices, and children's Homes. -
The beginning of catholic education
The first Catholic schools, humble as they were, sprang up in the Sydney area in the 1830s. They were run mainly by lay people. The first Catholic school in Victoria, established in Melbourne in 1840 by Father Patrick Geoghagan, was similarly run by lay people. -
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Cardinal moran
Patrick Francis Moran was the third Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney and the first cardinal appointed from Australia. -
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Fr Julian Tenison Woods
Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods, commonly referred to as Father Woods, was a Catholic priest and geologist, active in Australia. With Mary MacKillop, he co-founded the Congregation of Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart at Penola in 1866 -
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Mary Mackillop
Mary Helen MacKillop RSJ was an Australian religious sister who has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church, as St Mary of the Cross. Of Scottish descent, she was born in Melbourne but is best known for her activities in South Australia -
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George Morley
William Morley (1854?-1939), Congregational minister, was born at Cransley, Northamptonshire, England, son of George Morley, postal official, and his wife Anne, née Moore. From 1875 he studied for the Congregational ministry at New College, London. He married Alice Micklem at Littlewick, Berkshire, on 19 July 1881. -
Eureka stockade
The Eureka Rebellion occurred in 1854, involving gold miners in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, who revolted against the colonial authority of the United Kingdom. -
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Daniel Mannix
Daniel Patrick Mannix was an Irish-born Catholic bishop. Mannix was the Archbishop of Melbourne for 46 years and one of the most influential public figures in 20th-century Australia -
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Arrival of the Marist brothers
The Marist Brothers arrived in Australia in 1872 at the invitation of the Archbishop of Sydney. The Brothers in Australia currently operate as two Provinces (administrative units) with centers in Sydney and Melbourne. -
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Bob Santamaria
Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria, usually known as B. A. Santamaria, was an Australian Roman Catholic anti-Communist political activist and journalist. He was a guiding influence in the founding of the Democratic Labor Party. -
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Edward Bede 8
Edward Bede Clancy AC was an Australian Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal. He was the seventh Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney from 1983 to 2001. He was made Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Vallicella in 1988. -
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Kathleen Mary Egan
Kathleen Mary Egan (1890-1977), Dominican Sister and educationist, was born on 16 December 1890 at The Rock, near Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, third child of Richard Egan, a railway stationmaster from Ireland, and his native-born wife Catherine, née Connors.
