TheCatholicChurchinAustralia

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  • 1606

    1606 Spanish naval captain Pedro Fernandez de Quiros calls Vanuatu "La Australia del Spiritu Santo" - Southland of the Holy Spirit

  • 1616

    Dutch sea captain Dirk Hartog landed on western coast of Australia

  • 1627

    Peter Nuyts sails along eastern shore of the Great Australian Bight

  • 1642

    Abel Tasman discovers what is now called Tasmania, but which he called Van Diemen's Land

  • pre - Aboriginal had a connection

    pre - Aboriginal had a connection
    pre 1788 Aboriginal people had a deep spiritual connection to the land

  • European settlment

    European settlment
    The first fleet arrived in Australia to start the European settlment.

  • 1803

    1803
    A covicts priest fr james dixon was given premission to celebrate catholic mass

  • 1817

    1817
    fr jeremiall o'flinn came to minister to the catholics in Australia

  • 1820

    1820
    The first officially oppointed priest Fr John Therry and Fr Philip Connolly arrived in Australia.

  • 1835

    1835
    The first catholic bishop John Bede polding arrived in Australia.

  • 1847

    James Alepius Goold becomes first Catholic bishop of Melbourne

  • 1869

    Bishops' Pastoral Statement complains of injustice to Aborigines