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La Perouse enters Botany Bay and his chaplain, Abbe Mones, celebrates the first Mass within Australian territory
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First Irish convicts transported to Botany Bay
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Catholic settlers in Parramatta Parramatta petition governor Phillip for a Chaplin
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Fr James Dixon and two other priests arrested as part of the 1798 Irish rebellion arr transported to NSW as convicts.
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First official public mass is held under strict government supervision and is celebrated by prisoner priest, Fr Dixon.
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Castle hill rebellion resulted in Fr Dixion’s permit to conduct mass being withdrawn.
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Fr Jeremiah Flynn arrives to minister to convict Catholics but he does not have the official sanction of the church or state,
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Fr Jeremiah Flynn got arrested and deported despite protests from the colony’s Catholics and several Protestant leaders because he ignored governor macquarie’s instructions not to carry out any of the functions of a priest.
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Fr John Therry and Fr Philiip Conolly, Australaias firat official preasts, arrives in sydney. Fr Therry opens the first Catholic school in Parramatta and labbies Governer Macquarie for land on which to build the settlement’s first Catholic church.
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Father Conolly leaves for Hobart leaving Fr John Therry the only priest on Mainland Australia.
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The foundation stone of St Mary’s Chapel is laid by Governor Macquarie and blessed by Fr Therry. Father Connolly builds the first Catholic church in Tasmania.
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Fr Therry founds the first Catholics school on Hunter Street, Parramatta
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Fr Daniel Power lands in Sydney Gazatte triggering a furore among the Anglican Establishment. An outraged Governor Macquarie now Earl of Bathurst removes therry from his role as the colony’s official chaplain.
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Penal laws preventing Catholics holding Government positions ends.
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Fr power dies.