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The first priests arrived in the colony as convicts! One of these, James Dixon, was granted conditional emancipation and permission to say mass for the Catholics of Sydney on successive Sundays -
In 1803 First public Mass said by Fr. Dixon -
When Dixon returned to Ireland mass was not legally celebrated again in the colony until fathers john joseph Therry and Phillip Connolly, chaplains appointed by the Government in London, arrived in 1820. Their arrived can be regarded as the formal establishment of the catholic church in Australia. -
First Catholic newspaper Australasian Chronicle founded first published on 2 august 1839 it's stated aim was "to explain and holdup the civil and religious principles of the Catholics, and to maintain their rights first mass in Melbourne. -
Roman Catholic Orphan School opened at Parramatta with the transfer of 113 orphans from Waverley -
John Bede Polding found Good Samaritan Sisters -
the first St Mary's Cathedral in College Street, Sydney was destroyed by fire. All that remained of the original buildings was the Pugin façade and bellower along with part of the north-east transept. The Cathedral was finally finished in 1928. -
Father Julian Tension Woods and started sisters of St. Joseph -
St Mary's Cathedral in College Street, Sydney was destroyed by fire again. All that remained of the original buildings was the Pugin façade and bell tower along with part of the north-east transept. -
born near Moylough, Galway, Ireland, and educated at St Jarlath's College, Tuam, and at St Patrick's College, Maynooth. In 1874 he was elected to the vacant chair of theology and in 1880 he became vice-president of Maynooth and editor of the Irish Ecclesiastical Record, which he conducted with success. In 1883 he was made bishop of Galway, was on 26 August of that year, and three years later, almost to the day, was appointed Archbishop of Melbourne. He arrived in Melbourne on 11 June 1887. -
Education act removed state aid to catholic schools