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FIRST CATHOLIC SCHOOL
Lay couple Mary and Michel Berg established the first catholic school funded entirely by local parents. It is located near Saint Stephens Cathedral now. -
FIRST CATHOLIC CHURCH
The first catholic Church was built and called Saint Stephens. Almost ten years later Saint Stephens was proclaimed the cathedral of diocese. -
THE TRIP TO BRISBANE
Bishop Jame Quin, five priests and six sisters of mercy made their way to Brisbane aboard the yara yara. Mother Vincent Wishy and the sisters of mercy established our first catholic secondary school. -
TEACHERS TRAINING COLLEGE
It would be almost a hundred years until a dedicated teachers training college was established. -
FREE EDUCATION
The 1870s was a time of growth on the back of the divide between the Irish Catholic and the English Protestants. -
GROWING NEED
Archbishop Punn's in 1919 archbishop James Jewish a visionary with an entrepreneurial spirit could see the growing need for catholic Education. -
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
The period of the Great Depression in 1929 to the end of world war 2 saw Australia suffer the challenges of widespread poverty and unemployment. -
NEW EDUCATION
By1930 he had established 28 new catholic schools. -
AFTER THE GREAT DEPRESSION
19 new Catholic Schools were opened despite the bleak outlook about ongoing funding ballooning class sizes demands on infrastructure and the quality of religious education. -
THE CHANGES
Archbishop at the time change was on the horizon father Bernard O'shea was appointed as diocesan inspector in 1943. -
STILL STRUGGLING
Catholic education continued to struggle with demands of its mission throughout the post-war boom. -
FOR A HUNDRED YEARS TIME
This was the first time in almost one hundred years the Catholic schools had received Government funding. -
TECHEARS
Lay Teachers were battling with stifling conditions. -
THE OPENING
College would open its doors in 1973 to include Lay teachers as Catholic schools have become more reliant on laid leadership. -
THE CLOSING
This decade closed with 43 thousand students enrolled and 113 schools across archdioceses..
