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Churches, 1871

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St. John's Auxiliary to the Church Society, Parramatta. [From Our Correspondent.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 February 1871 · page 2

ON Wednesday evening last the fifteenth annual meeting of members of the above society was held in St. John's school-room, and although the w[?]ther was exc[?] inclement, there were about forty persons present. The…

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Catholic Picnic, Hobart Town

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 February 1871 · page 12

The Catholic Standard states that the grand Catholic picnic, under the auspices of the Catholic Literary Association, took place on Boxing Day, arid proved, as we predicted…

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The New Catholic Cathedral, Goulburn

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 February 1871 · page 11

On the 29th ult., after 11 o'clock Mass, at the request of the Right Rev. Dr. Lanigan, the Catholics of Goulburn assembled in the boy's school-room, Bourke-street, for the purpose of…

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St. George's Church Mutual Improvement Association

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 11 February 1871 · page 6

A public lecture was delivered in connection with the above association in St. George's Church, Castlereagh-street, on Tuesday evening the 7th instant, by the Rev. Calier Greig, of…

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Church and Dissent. (From the Daily News.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 February 1871 · page 5

ON the 19th day of June last, a serious breach of e[?]lesiastical law was committed it Middleton Tyas, in Yorkshire. From a correspondence which has taken place, it appears that the Rev. James…

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Great Charge of Heresy Prosecution of the Rev. Mr. Voysey. In the Church of England

Evening News · Wednesday 15 February 1871 · page 3

BEFORE the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Chelmsfor[?], and Sir R. J. Phillimore.—VOYSEY v. NOBLE.—This case, being an appeal from an interlocatory order made in a suit…

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Dedication of the New Catholic Church at Villa Maria

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 February 1871 · page 3

The solemn blessing and dedication to God's worship, under the patronage of the Blessed Virgin, of the newly erected church, at Villa Maria, by the Marist missioners…

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The Anglican Bishop of Melbourne and the Education Question

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 February 1871 · page 12

At the close of the business of the Church of England Assembly on Tuesday, 7th inst., the subject of education formed the theme of a discussion. Dr. Perry, in the course of…

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Ordination Oe a Catholic Priest at Goulburn

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 February 1871 · page 12

On Sunday, 5th inst., the ordination of a Catholic priest took place in Saints Peter and Paul's Cathedral, Goulburn. The Rev. Michael Coffey, already in Holy Orders…

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Blessing the Foundation Stone of the New Catholic Cathedral

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 February 1871 · page 7

We learn from the Southern Argus, on Sunday after second Mass the foundation-stone of the new Catholic Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Goulburn was solemnly…

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Meeting at the Unitarian Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 February 1871 · page 5

LAST evening, a meeting of the friends of religious liberty was convened in the Unitarian Church, Macquairie-street, to consider the sentence lately passed upon Mr. W. Lorando Jones, at the Parramatta Quarter Sessions, for…

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Kurrajong Churches. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 February 1871 · page 3

SIR,—A few weeks ago I observed an advertisement in your columns calling for tenders for the erection of a church at North Kurrajong. Since then I have heard that the church is to be on Douglass Hill, in connection…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 February 1871 · page 7

JANUARY 31.—The annual meeting of the St. Barnabas branch of the Church Society was h[?]ld, the Dean of Sydney presiding. The contributio[?]s of the year amounted to £1[?]…

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Catholic

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 February 1871 · page 11

The Right Rev. Dr. Lanigan has sent the following circular to all the priests of his diocese:— Rev. Dear Sir,—In January, 1869, I…

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Presbyterian Church of New South Wales

Sydney Mail · Saturday 25 February 1871 · page 5

A PRELIMINARY meeting of gentlemen favourable to the formation of a lay association in connection with the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales was held on Monday evening in the committee room of the Temperance…

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The New Catholic Church, Carcoar. (To the Editor of the Freeman s Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 February 1871 · page 10

SIR,—In an age marked by so general a departure from virtue and principle, by so special a tendency to irreligion and materialism, men blessed with faith, and led by reflection to…

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Blessing the Foundation Stone of the New Catholic Cathedral, Goulburn

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 February 1871 · page 12

We learn from the Southern Argus, on Sunday, after second Mass, the foundation-stone of the new Catholic Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in. Goulburn was solemnly…

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Meeting at the Unitarian Church

Sydney Mail · Saturday 25 February 1871 · page 14

ON Wednesday evening, a meeting of the friends of religions liberty was convened in the Unitarian Church, Macquarie- street, to consider the sentence lately passed upon Mr. W. Lorando Jones, at the Parramatta Quarter Sessions, for…

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Kurrajong Churches. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Saturday 25 February 1871 · page 3

SIR,—A few weeks ago I observed an advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald, calling for tenders for the erection of a church at North Kurrajong. Since then, I have heard that this church is to be on Douglass Hill, in connection with…

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The Bishop of Tasmania, the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Conference, and the Permissive Liquor Law. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 March 1871 · page 6

SIR,—The [?] hon. secretary of the Tasmanian Temperance Alliance (Mr. Andrews) has just been so good as to send me the Hobart Town Mercury of 15th instant, which contains a very interesting…

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