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Churches, 1885

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A Catholic Hall and Library for Sydney

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 May 1885 · page 14

THE heading of this paragraph suggests an undertaking which has been talked of often, yet never practically set on foot. A Catholic city hall has been in the thoughts and hopes of the community…

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The Roman Catholic Diocesan Synod of Victoria. Melbourne

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 May 1885 · page 1093

The first Roman Catholic Diocesan Synod, preliminary to the first national council of the Catholic Church of Australasia, to be held at Sydney at the end of the year, took place to-day in St. Patrick's Cathedral,…

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Strange Scene in a Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 May 1885 · page 6

At Mi[?]street, Monday, April 5, a young man named Riordan was charged with disturbing public worship in the Catholic Church at Mill-street by interrupting the Rev. Canon Griffin…

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The O'connell Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 May 1885 · page 5

Canon Brosnan writes to the Nation of April 21 :—I beg to say that the foundations of the church have been built, and are wholly in concrete, and so solid that any design of building…

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The Archbishop at Redfern. School-church of St. Vincent De Paul

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 May 1885 · page 18

THE ceremony of Sunday afternoon was in many respects interesting, and in point' of enthusiasm., and generosity, which are essential elements on such occasions, the laying of the foundation-stone…

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Bazaar In, Aid of St. Mark’s Church

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 23 May 1885 · page 8

A BAZAAR in aid of the fund for reducing the debt on St. Mark’s Church, Granville, was opened on Wednesday afternoon in the School of Arts, Good-street, and continued during the…

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Pastoral Letter. the Anglican Church Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 May 1885 · page 5

The following is the Pastoral Letter which was read yesterday in the Anglican churches of the diocese of Sydney:— "Sydney, May 20th, 1885. "Dearly Beloved in the Lord—When at this time last…

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Church of St. Columbkille, Woolloomooloo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 May 1885 · page 4

Archbishop Moran yesterday afternoon laid the first stone of the Roman Catholic Church which is to be built in Duke-street, Woollootnooloo and an assemblage of several thousand persons witnessed the formal ceremony and…

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A New R.c; Church in Woolloo Mooloo

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 May 1885 · page 6

Under circumstances which invested the ceremony with special interest Arehbishop Moron yesterday afternoon laid the foundation-stone of a new church in Duke-street. Woolloomooloo. The…

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Bishop Barry and the Church Society

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 May 1885 · page 4

The following pastoral letter was read yesterday in most of the Anglican Churches in the diocese of Sydney:- Sydney, May 20th, 1885…

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New Catholic School at Botany

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 May 1885 · page 4

Archbishop Moran yesterday, blessed and formally opened the Mount St. Bernard's Roman Catholic school, which is situate on the Botany-school, near the [?] ing the mill-pond dam. The building is an [?]…

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New Guinea. Tereatened Massacre of Mission Teachers

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 May 1885 · page 6

The following letter from the Rev. S. Macfarlane appeared in the "Brisbane Courier":-- "Papuan Institute, Torres Straits, New Guinea, 21st April, 1885.--A few days ago the teachers and…

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New R. C. Church. St. Columbkille's

Evening News · Tuesday 26 May 1885 · page 6

On Sunday afternoon (Whit Sunday), Archbishop Moran laid the first stone of the new church in Duke-street, Woolloomoloo, to be dedicated to St. Columbkille, one of the most illustrious of Irish saints…

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Church of England Young Men's Society. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 May 1885 · page 7

Sir,—The Most Rev. the Primate's practical and excellent address in support of the "Church of England Temperance Society" at its meeting on Tuesday evening was very encouraging. Every right-minded person must…

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Roman Catholic Mission to the Maories

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 May 1885 · page 5

The half-yearly meeting of Pt. Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society (Roman Catholic) was held at Beigrave square, London, a few days before the departure of the last mail. Amongst those…

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The Water Conservation Com Mission's Tour. [By Telegraph.]

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 May 1885 · page 6

NYNGAN, Thursday.-- The Royal Commission on the conservation of water, after travelling all night, retched Nyngan at midday, and at once began to take evidence in the court-hones, Mr…

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The Roman Catholic Board of Education. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 29 May 1885 · page 8

Sir,--We have now had about three year' experience under the a[?]ovementioned board. It is time to ask what it has [?] we have had some schools opened, other are being built. His Grace Dr…

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New Mission at Rookwood

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 May 1885 · page 15

THE Archbishop has erected Rookwood Into a parish, and the new" district will include Irish Town, which formerly belonged to the Liverpool mission, and also St. Anne's, Concord. Father…

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Catholic. Church of St Columbkille, Wool-loomooloo. an Imposing Pageant

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 May 1885 · page 17

IMMEDIATELY after the ceremony of consecrating the Holy Family Sodality, performed by his Grace the Archbishop in the Cathedral on Sunday afternoon, the members of the Confraternity…

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Catholic. Archbishop Moran, Bishop Barry, and the Governor

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 May 1885 · page 15

HIS Grace the Archbishop of Sydney, in the course of his speech at the new school at Botany on Monday afternoon, referred to the unsuccessful attempt to permanently establish the Church…

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