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Sydney · Churches

Churches, 1864

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Church of St. Anne, Spitalfields

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 9 November 1864 · page 3

On last Sunday afternoon there was a solemn reception of a large number of new members into the Holy Family Society in this church. The Hon. and Right Rev. Monsignor Talbot gave the Papal…

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Church of the Immaculate Conception. Farm Street

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 9 November 1864 · page 3

Last Sunday, being the Feast of S. Ignatius Loyola, was solemnly observed in this church. His Eminence, the Cardinal Archbishop, preached a truly eloquent sermon on the motto of the Jesuits,…

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St. Bede's Church

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 9 November 1864 · page 5

During the past few months, the Bar. E. O Brien has prepared for First Communion, a number of children of the St. Bede's and Jembaicumbene Schools. The final examination took…

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Debate on Presbyterian Union

Empire · Thursday 10 November 1864 · page 5

THE discussions which took place in the Syned of Eastern Australia on Monday evening, upon the subject of the proposed union were of unwonted importance; and as the speeches delivered and the decision arrived at on…

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Presbyterian Union. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 10 November 1864 · page 8

SIR,—This afternoon I attended a meeting of conference on Presbyterian union, in St. Andrew's Scots Church, Bathurst-street. I was not a member of conference. and not long after the proceedings commenced, I get a…

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Catholic Meeting in Brisbane

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 November 1864 · page 2

A meeting of Roman Catholics was held last evening, in St. Stephen's School-room, to "take into consideration certain false and scandalous statements made by a Roman Catholic, at a meeting…

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Laying the Foundation-stone of a Catholic Church at Skelmersdale

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 November 1864 · page 6

On Monday, the 1st August, the foundation-stone of a new Catholic Church was laid at Skelmersdale by the Right Rev. Dr.Goss, the Reman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool, assisted by…

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Presbyterian Union. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Tuesday 15 November 1864 · page 5

SIR—As the Synod of New South Wales, of which I have been for some time part Moderator, bas been charged in certain quarters with having taken up a folue position, and compremised its own character by agreeing…

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Union of Presbyterian Churches

Empire · Wednesday 16 November 1864 · page 5

A VERY important and intereating event was consummated last evening in St. George's Church, Castler[?] street.—the union of the two churches represented by the Synod of Eastern Australia and the Synod of New…

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Presbyterian Union

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 November 1864 · page 5

A MEETING was held yesterday evening (a St. George's Church, Castlereagh-street, for the consummation of the preliminary union into which the Synod of Eastern Australia and the Synod of New South Wales and certain…

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The Mission of the Passionist Fathers in Magheracloone Car. Rickmacross, Concluded on Sunday. July 17, 1864

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 16 November 1864 · page 2

It was another of those events which a person thanks God for having, once seen and we remember with religious joy till death. The wisdom of God in the provisions He makes for the…

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St. James's Church, Sydney

Illustrated Sydney News · Wednesday 16 November 1864 · page 5

OUR Sydney readers, or any person who has visited this city, will at once recognise the view which we present of the oldest specimen of colonial ecclesiastical architecture in the metropolis—the principal episcopal church in the Colony, and possessing the largest congregation…

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Presbyterian Union

Sydney Mail · Saturday 19 November 1864 · page 8

A MEETING was held on Tuesday evening in St. George's Church, Cast[?]gh-street, for the consummation of the preliminary union into which the Synod of Eastern Australian and the Synod of New South Wales and certain…

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Catholic Intelligence From Europe

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 November 1864 · page 5

WE propose to direct attention to some of the more important items of Catholic intelligence contained in the papers received by the last mail…

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Synod of Australia in Connexion with the Established Church of Scotland. Annual Meeting—session 1864

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 November 1864 · page 5

THE Synod met, acoording to appointment, in St. Andrew's Church, Sydney, on 2nd November, 1864, at seven o'clock p m. When the retiring Moderator — the Rev. John M'Gibbon, B.A., minister of Woolloomooloo—preached…

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Presbyterian Union

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 November 1864 · page 9

A MEETING was hold on the 15th instant, in St. George's Church, Castlereagh-street, for the consummation of the preliminary union into which the Synod of Eastern Australia and the Synod of New South Wales and certain…

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Reliqious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 November 1864 · page 9

THE Bishop of Goulburn visited Deniliquin on the 22nd ultimo. It is proposed to build a church in that township, and £150 are available for that purpose. A site for the erection has been given and a subscription opened for the support of a resident minister…

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Original Poetry. the Church of God

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 23 November 1864 · page 6

Built on a rock alone it stands, Alone, immutable, sublime, It was not raised by human hands, It knoweth not the wear of time…

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Presbyterian Union. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 November 1864 · page 7

SIR,—It will be gratifying to the great majority of Presbyterians in the colony, and in the mother country, that now " Presbyterian Union " will soon be a fact realised, and not, as hitherto, only a speculation and desire. What has…

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Free Church of England. Laying the Foundation Stone

Empire · Friday 25 November 1864 · page 5

THE foundation stone of the first church in connection with the Free Church of England in this colony, to be erected at the foot of Bourke. street, Woolloomooloo, near the Bay, was laid yes'erday afternoon. About 300…

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