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The suburb of Riverwood (then known as Herne Bay) developed rapidly after World War II. There were […]

In 1948, the parish of Sefton was established and placed in the care of the Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate […]

Regina Coeli Catholic Primary School Beverly Hills was opened in 1947 by the Sisters of St Joseph with an enr […]

St Agnes’ school began in 1940 when Matraville was part of the new parish of Malabar. It started as […]

In 1940, St Therese’s School began with Preparatory (Kindergarten) and First Class. Staffing the s […]

Norman Thomas Gilroy was born in Sydney on 22 January 1896. He attended Seminary at St Columba’s Springwood, and Propaganda Fide, in Rome. He was ordained a priest on 24 December 1923 at St John Lateran Basilica, Rome, by Cardinal Van Rossom. Thomas was Elected Bishop of Port Augusta on 10 Decem […]

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The parish of St Thomas More’s Catholic Primary School Brighton-Le-Sands was proclaimed in Nov […]

St Gabriel’s School and Church was blessed and opened on 29 January 1939. The school consisted of three large […]

The parish priest of Eastwood, Fr J M Cusack, approached the Marist Brothers about establishing a boys school […]

De La Salle Catholic College Cronulla was established on 13 May 1936. The name of the property the Brothers p […]

In 1935, the Sisters of Mercy (Parramatta Congregation) established Our Lady of Mercy College (OLMC) in a cot […]

The parish priest and local community worked for the founding of a school at Cabramatta. They ar […]

St Anthony’s Marsfield was blessed and opened by Archbishop Bernardini on 24 June 1934 […]

Bethany College was founded in 1993 as a result of the amalgamation of two girls’ sc […]

St Jerome’s Punchbowl began in 1933 when Punchbowl was part of the parish of Bankstown. A church-school was b […]

Ashbury parish was established in 1929 by Fr Edward McMahon who asked the Ursuline Sisters to start a school. […]

The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn the world has ever faced and lasted from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash on 29 October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Read More […]

In nearby Guildford, the Sisters of St Joseph had a community and school, and in 1928 two of these Josephites […]

The school began as a church and a school in 1929 by the Sisters of Charity. During the week the b […]

St Finbar’s school opened in 1926 when Sans Souci was still part of the parish of Kogarah. The pari […]

St Therese’s school began in April 1926 when the church-school was opened at Lakemba. It was the first buildi […]

Our Lady Queen of Peace Primary School Gladesville was founded by the Sisters of Mercy (Parramatta Congr […]

St Martha’s School began in 1925 in the old church of St Martha in Strathfield, which had been open […]

When the new parish of Holy Innocents’ Croydon was established in 1924, the first parish pries […]

St Peter Chanel Catholic Primary School Regents Park was established by the Sisters of St Joseph in 1925 with […]

St Kevin’s School began in 1924 when the district was still part of the parish of E […]

St Patrick’s Catholic Primary School Sutherland is a primary school that caters for students from […]

St Ambrose School began in 1924 as the third Catholic school within the parish of Concord. The Sisters of Cha […]

The story of ‘Marcellin’ began in 1921 with a visit to Randwick by Archbishop Kelly. The Mi […]

Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School Earlwood was established in 1923 by the North Sydney […]

Opened on 13 May 1923, St Brigid’s Catholic Primary School Coogee was administered by the Brigidine Sisters f […]

In the 1920’s, Flemington was part of a developing area of Sydney. The priest at Strathfield decid […]

St Michael’s Catholic Primary School Meadowbank opened in 1922 under the leadership of two Sisters […]

St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School Belmore was established by the Sisters of St Joseph in 1921 and is located […]

In the 1920s St Michael’s and St Mary’s Star of the Sea schools were amalgamated under one administration. In the late 1960’s, a separate administration was introduced for the primary and secondary sections of the school and in 1933 the secondary school changed its name to Bethany College. […]

The school began on 19 January 1919 in a house in Abbotsford. The Presentation Sisters (Wagga Wagga Congr […]

St Aloysius was founded by St Mary MacKillop’s order of nuns, the Josephites, in 1918 and entrust […]

St Anthony’s opened on 28 January 1918. The school was staffed by the Sisters of St Joseph. It opened as a pr […]

St Joseph’s Enfield opened in mid-1917 in Fr Considine’s hall. The school was staffed by the Siste […]

With a Catholic high school for girls close by and established in the growing suburb of Ashfield since 1881, […]

North Sydney parish was established in 1856 and came under the care of the Jesuit Fathers from 1880. Early Ca […]

Long Bay Catholic School began in 1915, when the area was mainly sand dunes and marshland and the p […]

The school began in 1915, just a year after the parish was established. The Brigidine Sisters staffed the sch […]

On 17 May 1914, it was announced that a new school would open in Daceyville, now called St Michael’s Catholic […]