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- It is divided into three eras: To 1840, which sees the transition from indigenous to colonial Australia and the foundation of Catholicism here; the era 1841-1900, when gold rushes and Irish immigration brought a burgeoning Catholic population; the period from Federation, 1901-1950, with two world wars and the beginning of multicultural immigration, and 1951-2023, with Vatican II, the first visit of a Pope to Australia, and the canonisation of Mary MacKillop.
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Their arrival can be regarded as the formal establishment of the Catholic Church in Australia. The first bishop. The first Catholic bishop in Australia was John Bede Polding.
The first Catholics to reside in Australia arrived with the First Fleet in 1788. They were mostly Irish convicts, together with a few Royal Marines. One-tenth of all convicts transported to Australia were Catholic, and half of these were born in Ireland, while a good proportion of the others were English-born but of Irish extraction.
Later Cardinal Moran (1830–1911), a noted historian, wrote a History of the Catholic Church in Australasia. More recent Catholic histories of Australia include The Catholic Church and Community in Australia (1977) by Patrick O'Farrell and Australian Catholics (1987) by Edmund Campion.
1847 James Alepius Goold becomes first Catholic bishop of Melbourne. 1848 The Catholic Church in Australia is divided into provinces and dioceses. 1850 Establishment of the University of Sydney. 1851 Beginning of the Gold Rush. Victoria becomes a separate colony from New South Wales. Fr. Patrick Dunne celebrates Mass on the goldfields of Ballarat
The ACHS Timeline highlights key events in Australian Catholic history. It is divided into three eras: To 1840, which sees the transition from indigenous to colonial Australia and the foundation of Catholicism here; the era 1841-1900, when gold rushes and Irish immigration brought a burgeoning Catholic population; the period from Federation, ...
Timeline of Australian Catholic history from Federation to the canonisation of Mary MacKilliop.
AUSTRALIA, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN An account of Australian developments invites a comparison with the United States. The two nations occupy roughly the same area, and each had its beginnings as a group of New World colonies of the British crown.
