The Catholic Church in Australia

By huxley

  • First Catholics Arrived in Australia

    First Catholics Arrived in Australia
    The first Catholics in Australia arrived with captian cook as convicts, only 10% were catholic and were born in Ireland

  • First Catholic Priests

    First Catholic Priests
    First Catholic Priests arrived in a collonly as convicts

  • Father John joseph Therry and Philip Connolly-chaplains

    Father John joseph Therry and Philip Connolly-chaplains
    Father John joseph Therry and Philip Connolly-chaplains appointed by government

  • catholic schools

    catholic schools
    By 1833 there were about 10 catholic schools in the country

  • Education acts

    All states passed education acts removing state aid, with no money to pay staff, the bishops appealed to religious orders in Ireland and other European countries/Nuns/Sisters and brothers

  • Australian Born Priests

    Australian born Priests outnumbered the Irish Priests

  • Baby Boomers

    Baby Boomers
    catholic increased (baby boomers 50’s-no contraception- against Gods design.) Numbers of brothers, nuns and priests also increased and Catholics improved their socio-economic status. Rosmary beads were common and high level attendance of mass