Church Timeline

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  • First Mass

    La Perouse and Abbe Mones travel to Botany Bay
    Celebrate by having the first Mass in Australain Territory
  • Christian Brothers

    Christian Brothers
    Edmund Ignatius Rice started the Christian Brothers foundation
  • Fr James Dixon-Mass

    Fr James Dixon-Mass
    Irish Catholic Priest
    Conducted the first public mass which Philip Gidley King was so pleased he gave Dixon a salary of £60 ($112.22) Born: 1758 (Ireland)
    Death: 4 January, 1840
  • The Castle Hill Rebellion

    First uprising in Australia
    Started by Irish convicts to gain power over the British in NSW
    39 convicts died
    Resulted in the Martial Law Punishments being put in place
  • Rum Rebellion

    NSW
    NSW Corp's men and officers rebelled against the Sydney Government House
    Target was Governor William Bligh
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    Fr. Jeremiah O’Flynn

    Landed in Australia
    Publicized the need for the Catholic Church in Australia.
    Deported because British Colonial opposes Born: 25 December, 1788 (Ireland)
    Death: 8 February, 1831
  • Fr John + Fr Philip Connolly

    The first official Priest come to Australia
  • Fr John Therry-First School

    Fr John Therry-First School
    First Catholic school in Australia
    By Fr John Therry (Irish Catholic Priest)
    Hunter Street, Parramatta
    31 students overall
  • First Church

    First Catholic Church made in Richmond, Tasmania
  • Fr. Ullathorne

    Fr. Ullathorne
    Comes to Sydney as Vicar-General
  • John Bede Polding- 1st Bishop

    John Bede Polding- 1st Bishop
    The first Roman Catholic bishop in Australia Born: 18 November, 1794 (England)
    Death: 16 March, 1877
  • John Bede Polding- 1st Archbishop

    John Bede Polding- 1st Archbishop
    The first Archbishop of Sydney
  • St Mary’s Cathedral

    Polding turns into an Archbishop making St Mary's Chapel into a Cathedral
  • St Mary’s Cathedral

    Burnt in a fire
    Completely wrecked
  • St Mary’s Cathedral

    New foundation laid down
    (This is the present Cathedral)
  • Marist Brothers

    Marist Brothers
    Arrived in Australia
    Set up many school in Sydney
    Group of men
    Gave care, shelter, education to all young people
    Didn't discriminate
  • St Mary’s Cathedral

    Opened
    Not finished
  • St Mary’s Cathedral

    Cardinal Patrick Moran officially opens it
    Largest Cathedral in Australia