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1845 - First Catholic School built
Mary and Michael Burke started the first Catholic school located next to the Saint Stephens location, which was built entirely from funded money collected by local catholic settlers. -
The Saint Stephens Catholic Church
The Saint Stephens Catholic Church was built. -
Saint Stephens Church proclaimed
The Saint Stephens Church is proclaimed the Cathedral of the diocese. Then, because NSW splits up, it is suddenly known as the colony of Queensland. -
Secondary Catholic School - All Hallows
Bishop James Quinn, 5 Priests and 6 Irish Sisters make their way to Brisbane. Then, they are surprised when they notice such poverty in the community. Therefore they established the first Catholic Secondary School All Hallows. -
St James College Built
The St James College in Spring Hill is built. Lay teachers come to the school to work and get their training before going to another school. -
New schools and and growth
In 1870 there was much growth and to go to school started to become compulsory. Then, in the next decade thirty-five schools are built. A few of these schools are St Patricks Primary and St Joseph's College. Then, Mary Mackillop came to Brisbane and started to teach in all the schools. -
New adjustments to the community
New adjustments give electricity and let women vote. Brisbane then gets a new archbishop known as Robert Done, and Brisbane then becomes an Archdiocese. -
New Archbishop
Archbishop Dunn passes away in 1919 and Archbishop James Chui takes over. He had a very positive and entrepreneurial spirit. He then bought many pockets of land. -
New Schools
In 1930 more than 28 catholic schools were built all around Brisbane. By this time there were many schools around the whole suburban areas of Brisbane. -
Great Depression and new schools
Brisbane Catholic education had a hard and slightly difficult time through the Great Depression. Though, BCE managed surprisingly to get through the Great Depression and ended up opening nine-teen schools. -
Father Bernard O'Shea appointed
In 1943 Father Bernard O'Shea was appointed as diocesan inspector. Then 5 years later he was appointed again as the diocesan director of Catholic education. -
New Schools and religious staff
26 school's were built even though a bare amount of money was being funded to the BCE. Because the orders of religious began to decline an increase in the employment of lay staff started to begin. -
Government money
The Government now allow money to be used in schools. Except, to get the money was pretty difficult as the school had to meet many requirements. Now it was only two years of training to become a teacher before entering the classroom to teach as a teacher. -
Many children and schools
In 1973, Macaulay college opened it's doors to lay teachers and Catholic schools had become more reliant on laid leadership and staff. The second Vatican council said that they would see this decade off with 43 thousand children enrolled and 113 schools across the archdiocese. -
New schools and a new director
12 new schools were built and Bernard O'Shea retired. He was replaced by Vince or orc. Then BCE added 19 new schools and new facilities and venues we use today.
