In fact the oldest three - Manly founded , Gosford and Pymble - covered most of the present Diocese until In a new parish was formed at Warnervale which incorporates a new K College and extensive facilities for this rapidly expanding area. With the creation of the Diocese in , came the need to nominate a Cathedral parish where the Bishop would reside as parish priest.
Due to its size and centrality, Corpus Christi, St Ives, was established as the liturgical centre, housing the Cathedra Bishop's Chair , which automatically elevated the beautiful Church to the status of Diocesan Cathedral. As the needs of a growing Diocese change, so does the way resources are utilised.
Originally a Parish church, the capacity at Corpus Christi for large congregations and liturgies was limited. During a visit to Rome in , Dr.
Polding secured the appointment of Dr. Davis, O. He, however, died in Sydney in Polding on 16 March, He was remarkable for his eloquence, and upheld with great vigour the Catholic cause in the matter of religious education. On 19 April, , he sailed for England via San Francisco, but died two days after his arrival in Liverpool 18 August.
Higgins was appointed auxiliary bishop in , and in was translated to the see of Rockhampton in Queensland. Most Rev. Michael Kelly, titular archbishop of Acrida, was appointed co-adjutor in The cathedral under the invocation of Our Lady Help of Christians, begun as far back as by Father Therry and completed by Archbishop Polding, was destroyed by fire on 29 June, It was rebuilt according to plans by Wardell, and consecrated by Archbishop Vaughan on 8 September, Archbishop Moran landed at Sydney on 8 September, The following year he was summoned to Rome to be promoted to the cardinalate.
He convened at presided at three plenary synods , , , and also presided at the Catholic congresses held in , , and Conferences of the clergy and diocesan synods have been held every year. Patrick's Ecclesiastical College, for the secular clergy, was erected at Manly on a government grant of eighty acres; the foundations were blessed during the plenary synod of , and dedicated in It was built and fully equipped at the sole expense of Cardinal Moran, who wished it to be his gift to the Australian Church, as it was intended not for Sydney alone but for all the Australian dioceses.
It has in the present year , eighty students, all Australians, and has since its opening furnished one hundred and thirty priests to the Australian mission. A preparatory ecclesiastical college at Springwood, in the Blue mountains, was opened last year. It is erected on a site of six hundred acres, the purchase of the land and the erection of the building being a further gift of the cardinal to the diocese. There are two Catholic weekly papers, "The Catholic Press" and "The Freeman's Journal"; there is also a quarterly "Australasian Catholic Record", besides, some minor month;ly publications.
The Catholic Club, organized in , has a considerable enrollment. When the Dr. Polding was appointed vicar Apostolic, several English Benedictines volunteered for the Australian Mission. Some years later, at Dr. Polding's petition, St. Mary's was declared a Benedictine cathedral, the adjoining rectory was raised to the dignity of a Benedictine priory, and it was hoped by the archbishop that the whole diocese would be efficiently served by an Anglo-Australian Benedictine community.
This, however, was soon found to be impracticable. From the first many difficulties beset the Benedictine order in Sydney. The community was finally dissolved by Archbishop Vaughan, himself a Benedictine, and missions were assigned to the priests in the ranks of the secular clergy.
The religious orders of men are at present represented by the Marist Fathers, who entered on their missionary work in , the Jesuits, Franciscans, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Vincencians, Passionists, Missionaries of the Divine Word, and Capuchins. In the members of the religious orders numbered 41; at present they are The Irish Congregation of the Sisters of Charity was the first of the orders of nuns to arrive 1 January, in Australia. The Sisters exercised general supervision of the Girls School, before taking control of it at the beginning of In , the first Catholic school opened in Armidale 5 years before the appointment of a Parish Priest and 14 years before the Diocese of Armidale was established and 34 years before the first teaching religious came to the diocese.
At that time, the District of Port Philip was part of the Archdiocese of Sydney, with the Diocese of Ballarat being established in In , Bishop Polding founds an Australian order of nuns in the Benedictine tradition, the Sisters of the Good Samaritan, to work in education and social work. The Sisters of Mercy arrived in Grafton in and took charge when the original school was constructed in In the Presentation sisters arrived in Australia. During the s and s, the majority of Australian colonies had passed laws which made education free, secular and compulsory.
Prior to this, governments had provided some funding assistance to Catholic schools, but all aid ceased when the Education Acts were introduced. The Loreto Sisters landed in Melbourne to begin their education mission in Australia, travelling to Ballarat on 20 July In , the New South Wales Catholic Bishops issue a joint Pastoral Letter stating that Catholics must send their children to Catholic schools unless given special dispensation by their parish priest.
In , a school was established at Elizabeth Bay, known as Kincoppal. In contrast, at the beginning of the 21st century, the Perth Church is characterised by Catholic migrants from Asian countries. In , the Diocese of Bunbury was formed by Bishop Goody. Mandurah and Pinjarra parishes were added to the diocese in Significant developments in recent decades include:.
John Brady 1st Bishop of Perth to Martin Griver 2nd Bishop of Perth to Matthew Gibney 3rd Bishop of Perth to Launcelot John Goody 3rd Archbishop of Perth to William Joseph Foley 4th Archbishop of Perth to Barry James Hickey 5th Archbishop of Perth to
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