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1788 First Fleet arrives in Australia
30% of the 756 convicts on the First Fleet were catholic. They were not allowed to have a Catholic church. They were forced to go to the Anglican Church service on Sunday. Governor Philip commanded that convicts would be flogged if they refused to attend church. Some convicts tried to burn down the Anglican church. -
Catholc settlers argued the Govenor
As a penal colony, any mission to NSW had to have the permission to British people and the governor. In 1792 five lay Catholics argued with governor Philip for appointment of a catholic priest. The early governors refused and requests for catholic clergy to minister in public to Catholic convicts and free settlers due to suspicion towards the Irish. -
1797 Catholics in Australia
The only way Catholics could keep up their faith was to say their traditional prayers such as the rosary. Sometimes they gathered in each others homes on a Sunday to say some of the prayers of the Mass. Catholic families may have baptised their children themselves, as there was no priest to do it. -
1798 The first two priest arrive in Australia
Fr Dixon got transported to Australia at the time, when he was a priest Governor King allowed him to conduct a religious school. Also in Mass Fr Dixon was in charged at marriages, baptised children and attended prisoners on the scaffold. -
1803 First Mass allowed to be celebrated
First official public Mass( 1803 15 May) is held under strict Government rules and is celebrated by prisoner priest, Fr Dixon. -
1804 Australia
Australia got its name in 1804. -
1817 First free priest arrived
Fr Flynn was not a convict. But he was expelled from NSW 1818. The year after ignoring Governor Macquarie's instructions, that's how he was expelled. -
1820 First offical Catholic priests arrive.
Fr therry and Fr conolly, Australia's first official priest in Australia in Sydney. Fr therry went to the first catholic school in Parramatta. The year after, Fr Collony left Hobart leaving Fr Therry, the only Priest on mainland Australia. -
1828 Catholics in NSW
The late 1820's there was convicts and or sometime not included convicts. -
1829 Emancipation Act in England
This act meant that Catholics were no longer annoyed and could do an important job. -
1830 First important officals in NSW who were catholics arrived
The act meant powerful people in the Government could now be Catholics. Fr power dies. -
1835 Bishop polding appoiment
Bishop Polding arrives in Hobart and a short time later he sails for Sydney. NSW had 20,000 Catholics so they needed a Bishop. -
1836 Church act
Bishop takes control of schools and by 1836 has 13 primary schools in operation. -
1838 Caroline Chislom chamioned the cause of women and emigrants
Caroline was a extremely important women and belonged in the New colony, and arrives at Sydney. -
1838 Myall Creek Massacres - white settlers killed a group of aborigines at Myall creek
Bishop polding spoke against a group of Aborigines by white settlers. He was concerned about Myall creek Massacres. -
1842 Polding appointed Archbishop
In 1839 there were 21,298 Catholics in the total population of 101,904 settlers. The catholic church was beginning to be populated in NSW. -
1843 First free priest arrives in Brisbane
The colony of Morten Bay was part of the colony in NSW.
