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The First Fleet
The first catholics to reside in Australia -
The first priest arrived in the colony
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Over 2000 Catholic convicts arrived in Botany Bay
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Period: to
James Dixon had permission to say Mass on sunday's
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Mass legally celebrated by chaplains
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Therry and Connolly arrived in Australia
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Ten Catholic schools were established in Australia
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First Catholic bishop arrived in Sydney
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The formal establishment of the Catholic Church
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Good Samaritan sisters founded
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'free, secular and compulsory' education began
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Josephites' were running 35 schools in the Adelaide diocese
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Education Act was passed
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815 sister from all orders teaching in schools
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115 brother teaching in thirty schools
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Over 5000 sister from all orders teaching in schools
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Numbers of Catholic grew rapidly
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Period: to
Post-war influx of non-English-speaking immigrants
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Period: to
The Second Vatican Council was held in Rome