The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church (1907) (14763133155)

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Title: The Catholic encyclopedia; an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline, and history of the Catholic Church
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Herbermann, Charles George, 1840-1916
Subjects: Catholic Church Theology Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York, The Encyclopedia Press
Contributing Library: Mississauga - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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ralian mainland and Tasmania had in thatyear a population of 211,095 souls. At the censusof that year, there were 35,690 of Bishop Foldingsspiritual subjects in a total population of 130.856in New South Wales (which then included the presentStates of Queensland and Victoria). Among theother scattered Catholics was a little group, poorlabourers all, except one famUy, in a white popula-tion of some 15.000 souls in South Australia. Thiscolony had been founded in 1836 as a free andsocially superior Protestant settlement, fromwhich Papists and pagans were to have beenrigidly excluded. A few Catholics, however, creptin. They were ministered to by one priest (FatherBenson) who lived among them in apostolic povertyfrom 1839 till the arrival of the first Bishopof Adelaide, Dr. Murphy, in 1842. In WesternAustralia there were 2.311 hard-pressed colonists atthe census of 1840. There were very few Catholicsamong them, and no priest till 1845, when therearrived in the colony Dom Rudesind Salvado, a
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AUSTRALIA ST. FRANCIS XAVIERS CATHEDRAL, ADELAIDE SYDNEY FROM LAVENDER BAY ST. PATRICKS CATHEDRAL, MELBOURNE ST. PATRICKS COLLEGE. MANLY, SYDNEYMELBOURNE FROM EXHIBITION DOMEST. PAULS CHURCH, MT. GAMBIER AUSTRALIA Spanish Benedictine, afterwards founder and firstAbbot of New Norcia. A closer hierarchical organiza-tion was needed. At Bishop Foldings earnest;olicitations new dioceses were created by the HolySee: Hobart, in 1842; Adelaide, in 1843; Perth, in1845; Melbourne, Maitland, and Port Victoria, in184S. Sydney also became an archiepiscopal see.Dr. Willson, the first Bishop of Hobart, will be re-membered for his successfid opposition to the ef-forts made, despite the local Church Act of 1837, tohave Anglicanism placed on the same official footingas in England. It was the last serious effort toestablish a religious ascendancy in any part ofAustralasia. In New South Wales the first sjTiodwas held in 1844. Six years later, the first sod of thefirst railroad in .Australasia was turned