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From the 1830s to 1914 over 300,000 Irish and British people immigrated to Australia.
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The first Marist Brothers arrived in Australia in 1872 and established schools in Sydney.
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Moran came from Ireland to be the Archbishop of Sydney in 1884 and only 1 year later he became Cardinal.
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On 8 May 1893, the Maronite Patriarch sent two priests to Sydney, having realized the need to establish a Maronite Mission in Australia.
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Norman Gilroy, was born on 22 January 1896 in Sydney.
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The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia.
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The De La Salle Brothers arrived in Australia in 1906 to establish Catholic schools.
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Moran was determined to have all Catholic children in schools staffed by religious Orders and by 1911 more than three-quarters of the Catholic children in Sydney of primary-school age were in his system.
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In 1912, he was consecrated a bishop and appointed Archbishop of Melbourne, arriving in 1913 to take up the position.
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The global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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Bob Santamaria was born in 1915, in Melbourne Victoria.
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The Australian Government would ask the people of Australia to vote in a referendum to introduce a conscription policy. The campaign for and against conscription was bitterly contested. The debate divided Australian society.
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The Australian Labor Party split of 1916 occurred following the disagreement within the Australian Labor Party over conscription in Australia.
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Daniel Mannix became Archbishop of Melbourne in 1917. His opposition to conscription brought him and the Catholic community into conflict with Australia's Protestants.
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The Great Depression, hit the New South Wales economy with great severity. Unemployment, already high at 10% in mid 1929, was 21% by mid 1930 and rising, hitting almost 32% in mid-1932.
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In 1941, Santamaria founded the Catholic Social Studies Movement, generally known simply as "the Movement", which recruited Catholic activists to oppose the spread of communism.
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Gilroy was created a cardinal on 18 February 1946, becoming the first Australian-born member of the College of Cardinals.
