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Churches, 1865

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Melanesian Mission

Empire · Tuesday 10 October 1865 · page 5

A public meeting was held last evening in St. James school-room, to receive from the Right Rev. Bishop Patteson and the Rev. Mr. Palmer, assistant missionary, a statement of the mission…

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Melanesian Mission

Sydney Mail · Saturday 14 October 1865 · page 6

A PUBLIC Meeting was held on Monday evening in St. James's Schoolroom, Castlereagh-street, to receive from Bishop Patteson a statement of the Mclanesian Mission since his last visit to Sydney, and to devise measures to…

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Roman Catholic Disabilities

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 October 1865 · page 648

THE recent debates in the House of Commons on the Roman Catholic Oaths Bills and the University Disabilities question are instructive, if not particularly amusing…

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The Church. Diocese of Birmingham

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 October 1865 · page 651

KENILWORTH.—On Sunday, the 4th inst., the Right Rev. Dr. Ullathorne, Bishop of Birmingham, held his visitation, according to Pontifical rite and administered the Sacrament of…

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The English Catholic. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Tuesday 17 October 1865 · page 6

SIR.—For the sake of the many readers of your paper who are interested in the disoussions in which I have [?] been [?] I wish to refer to one or two things in the letter of my [?] which…

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Presbyterian Union at Shoalhaven. [From a Correspondent.]

Empire · Wednesday 18 October 1865 · page 3

On Tuesday last, the 10th instant, the Presbytrians of Shoalhaven held a soiree in celebration of the Union (lately consummated,) of the different sections of the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales. The soi[?]…

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Presbyterian Social Meeting at Wollongong. [From a Correspondent.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 October 1865 · page 5

ON Thursday, the 12th instant, a public meeting was held in the large Assembly Hall, Queen's Hotel, Wollongong, to receive the deputation from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales, and to hear the…

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Diocese of Southwark. Solemn Observance of the Feast of St. Alphonsus Liguori at the Church of the Redemptorists

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 October 1865 · page 659

The Feast of Alphonsus Lignori was solmnly observed at the Church of the Redemptorista Fathers at Clapham on Wednesday. High Mass Coram Pontifice was celebrated at eleven o'clock…

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The Church. Diocese of Westminster. Solemn Observance of the Festival of St. Ignatius Loyola at Farm-street Church. Sermon by the Archbishop of Westminster

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 October 1865 · page 659

The Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola was solemnly observed at the Church in Farm-street on last Monday There had been a Triduum in the same church on the Friday, Saturday, and…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 October 1865 · page 9

THE Church or England Conference for the Sydney Diocese reassembled on Tuesday, the 26th ultimo, and sat again on the following day. After deliberation a resolution was adopted requesting the Bishop of Sydney (as Metropolitan) to summon a…

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The Church. Foreign Missionary College Op All Hallows, Dublin

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 October 1865 · page 683

Within the last twelve months the following zealous young missionaries have left All Hallows to spread the light of the Gospel in foreign countries:— Rev. Mr. Hamill, Boston, America…

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English Catholic Again. to the Editor the Empire

Empire · Wednesday 1 November 1865 · page 8

SIR.—For his bravery in challenging me to answer his annoymous "shuffring" and "abbling in logic" of Saturday last, when he knows that I decline to answer an anoymous libeller. "Eenglish Catholic"…

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New Catholic Church at the Oaks

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 November 1865 · page 695

On Wednesday, the 25th ultimo, the Church of St. Aloysius at the Oaks, was opened for divine worship by the Venerable Archdeacon McEncroe. The church is in an unfinished…

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The Church. Liverpool. New Catholic Schools at Birkenhead

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 November 1865 · page 700

Thursday being St. Laurence's Day, the foundation stone of new Catholic schools in connection with the newly-formed and densely | populated mission of St. Laurence, to be erected…

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Catholic Undergraduates at Oxford

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 November 1865 · page 697

A BRIEF notice appeared in the last number of the Borne News, that the Master and Fellows of Balliol had determined to admi Catholics into residence, and that such Ca…

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Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 November 1865 · page 8

THE Synod of Eastern Australia met, according to appointment, on Wednesday, 1st November, at noon, in St. George's Church, Sydney, and was constituted with prayer by the Moderator, the Rev. William M'Intyre, A.M…

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Father Maher, P.p., on the Protestant Established Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 November 1865 · page 3

The following splendid speech of Father Maher's was delivered by him at the late election for the borough of Carlow when proposing Mr. Stock as a candidate:…

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The Church. He Archbishop of Westminster in Essex

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 November 1865 · page 12

Last Sunday evening, August 6th, His Grace the Archbishop preached in the Church of the Sacred Heart, Brentwood, a very edifying sermon which was listened to with breathless…

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Daring Sacrilege at St. Joseph's Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 November 1865 · page 10

About six o'clock yesterday morning it was discovered that the vestry of St. Joseph's Church had been broken into during the night or early in the morning. A large iron chest about 2 1/2…

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Pres[?]terian Church of Eastern Australia

Empire · Monday 13 November 1865 · page 3

The Synod of Eastern Australia net, according to appointment, on Wednesday, 1st Norember, at noon, in St. George's Church, Sydney, and was constituted with prayer by the Moderator, the Rov. William M'Intyre…

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