Within the Diocese of Cairns, Catholic Education Services launched the 200 years celebration with a mass held on 11 February.
The mass was celebrated by Bishop of Cairns James Foley at St Monica’s Cathedral, with student representatives attending from a number of schools in the diocese.
A special Mass was celebrated by Bishop of Wagga Wagga Mark Edwards OMI in St Michael’s Cathedral on 3 November to mark the Bicentenary of Catholic education in Australia. After the Mass, Bishop Edwards launched the commemorative book, Our Story: Sowing the Seeds...
The National Catholic Education Commission (NCEC) hosted the second annual Faith in the Future Virtual Symposium on Wednesday 27 October with a keynote presentation by international educational expert Dr Lyn Sharratt (pictured below) focusing on educational...
Above: Music students at Santa Sabina College Strathfield, 1910. The history of Dominican education in Australia is a story with a number of unique foundation stories. It began on the east coast of Australia in 1867 when eight Dominican Sisters from Dun Laoghaire in...
Above: St Mary’s College Hobart First Presentation School in Australia. The Presentation Sisters' contribution to Catholic education began in Australia in 1866. Bishop of Hobart (later Archbishop) Daniel Murphy had arranged with the Mother Superior of the Presentation...
Above: Students from St Scholastica's College, Glebe circa early 1900s. The Sisters of the Good Samaritan of the Order of St Benedict was founded in Sydney by John Bede Polding OSB, Australia’s first Catholic Archbishop, on 2 February 1857. This new Congregation, the...
Above: Genazzano FCJ College students outside the Convent in 1889. Image sourced Genazzano Archives. In the gold rush year of 1851 there were 9000 Catholics in the colony of Victoria and by 1865, there were 100,000. The gold rush had transformed the colony and led the...
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