Significant periods in the Church’s history in Australia

By Madeleinepakes

  • La Perouse enters Botany Bay and his chaplain, Abbe Mones, celebrates the first Mass within Australian territory

  • First Irish convicts transported to Botany Bay

  • First official public mass

  • Father John Therry and Father Phillip Connoly arrive in Sydney as Australia’s first-ever priests

  • Father Therry was removed from his role of colony official Chaplin

  • Father Daniel Power lands in Sydney to replace Father Therry

  • Father Power dies

  • Father John Mcecroe appointed official Chaplin of Australia

  • St. Mary Chapel completed

  • Father John Brady consecrated as bishop of Perth moves from Winsdor to Western Australia

  • St Mary's Cathedral was renovated, and Archidoeses now has 33 parishes, 30 churches and 35 priests.

  • Father James Quinn became the first bishop of Brisbane

  • The NSW government passed bill to abolish state aid to religion

  • Fire destroys St Marys's Cathedral

  • Mary MacKillop is recommunicated into the church and the sisters permitted to continue their work