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He was an Irish Catholic priest who was transported to Australia and in 1803 became the first Catholic priest permitted to minister there. -
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Jeremiah O'Flynn managed to conflict with authority wherever he went, yet his clash with the Colonial Office helped to publicize the needs of Catholics in New South Wales and to influence the British government in 1820 in allowing the first official Roman Catholic missionaries -
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