St Peter’s Primary School Surry Hills closes
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Aquinas Catholic College Menai founded
Named after an eminent Doctor of the Church, Aquinas College, Menai was opened by Cardinal Edward Cla […]
St Mary’s High School Hurstville and St Joseph’s Girls’ High School Kogarah combine to form Bethany College Hurstville
Bethany College was founded in 1993 as a result of the amalgamation of two girls’ schools: St Mary’s Star of […]
Mary MacKillop Catholic College Wakeley founded
In June 1989, the SACS Board recommended that a new secondary school for girls in Years 7-12 should be built […]
Holy Cross Middle and Holy Cross Senior
The Sisters of Mercy came to Woollahra in 1907 to staff a primary school for the new Holy Cross parish. In late 1908, they also established, on the same site, an independent college known as Holy Cross College. After negotiations with Catholic educational authorities, the Sisters of Mercy agreed […]
John the Baptist Catholic Primary School Bonnyrigg founded
John the Baptist Catholic Primary School opened in 1989 with 86 children and 6 members of staff. Originally p […]
Holy Family Catholic Primary Menai founded
The parish priest of Sutherland, Fr Lawrence Cruikshank, and the CEO, Sydney had taken steps to establish a C […]
Freeman Catholic College Bonnyrigg Heights founded
In 1983, the Archdiocese purchased seven hectares in Bonnyrigg Heights, which would become a s […]
St Patrick’s College Sutherland founded
St Patrick’s College Sutherland is a Catholic co-educational secondary school, operated by Sydney […]
Mary Immaculate Catholic Primary School Bossley Park founded
In 1984, Archbishop Edward Clancy gave permission for a school to be built. Mary Immaculate School opened in […]
Sacred Heart Primary and Marist Brothers North Shore combine to form Sacred Heart Primary School Mosman
Sacred Heart Primary School was founded in 1983 through the amalgamation of two long-established […]
Archbishop Edward Cardinal Clancy appointed Archbishop of Sydney
Edward Bede Clancy was born in Lithgow on 13 December 1923. On 15 November 1973, Pope Paul VI appointed him Titular Bishop of Ard Carna and auxiliary to Cardinal Freeman. His Episcopal Ordination took place in St Mary’s Cathedral on 19 January 1974. On 24 November 1978, Pope John Paul II appoint […]
Marion Catholic Primary School Horsley Park founded
Marion Catholic Primary School was established in the parish of Our Lady of Victories after many requests fro […]
St Brigid’s College and De La Salle College combine to form Casimir Catholic College Marrickville
Casimir Catholic College is named after the great builder of the Marrickville parish, Fr Casimir Maguire, who was paris […]
St Mary’s Catholic Primary School Georges Hall founded
The first two stages of the school were built in 1978 and 1980, at a total cost of $400,000. It was o […]
St Mary’s Primary Maroubra Bay and St Joseph’s Primary Maroubra Beach are renamed St Mary-St Joseph Primary, with two campuses
In its present form St Mary- St Joseph School began in 1979 as an amalgamation of two earlier schools: St Mar […]
St John Bosco College Engadine founded
St John Bosco College was originally founded in 1978 at the initiative of the parishioners of St John Bosco P […]