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60000 years before the european settlement the aborigonal people were the first to have a religion in australia
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the european settlement when the first fleet arrive in australia
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A convict preist, Fr James Dixon , was given permission to celebrate catholic mass
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Fr Jeremiah O flynn came to minister to the Catholics in australia . He was arrested and deported in 1818
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The first official appointed preist, Fr John Therry Fr Phillip Connolly arrived in auastralia.
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The first Catholic Bishop, John Bede POLDING, arrived in Australia. He organised the Catholic church in Australia into regions or dioceas
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John Bede Polding became the fiirst archbishop of Sydney.
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Robert willson arrives as the first bishop of Tasmainia
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Opened at Parramatta with the transfer ofb 113 orphans from waverly.
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Bishop Brady consecrated as first bishop of peth
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Religous groups and orders started to further develop e.g. The sisters of charity /Mary Mkillop
