Archdiocese
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Significant Early Pioneers in the Church in Sydney

A timeline of Catholicism in Sydney

Previous Archbishops:

John Polding OSB
Roger Vaughan OSB
Patrick Cardinal Moran
Michael Kelly
Norman Cardinal Gilroy
James Cardinal Freeman
Edward Cardinal Clancy

Previous Auxiliary Bishops

All the Sydney Bishops

Foundation Dates of Sydney Parishes

Listed by date:

1821 - Cathedral
1838 - Broadway
1838 - Liverpool
1840 - Church Hill
1848 - Balmain
1850 - Darlinghurst
1851 - Lewisham
1851 - Ryde
1856 - North Sydney / Lavender Bay
1859 - Waterloo
1865 - Waverley
1869 - Newtown
1870 - Concord
1870 - Hunters Hill
1870 - Pyrmont
1872 - Erskineville
1874 - Edgecliffe
1875 - Holsworthy
1877 - Forest Lodge
1880 - Surry Hills
1881 - Rozelle
1885 - Lidcombe
1885 - Mascot
1885 - Randwick
1886 - Marrickville
1887 - Kogarah
1887 - Leichhardt
1889 - Camperdown
1889 - Paddington
1890 - Redfern
1894 - Ashfield
1898 - Annandale
1900 - Mosman
1901 - Drummoyne
1906 - Kensington
1906 - Woollahra
1908 - Dulwich Hill
1908 - Haberfield
1908 - Haymarket
1909 - Enmore
1911 - Coogee
1912 - Hurstville
1912 - Tempe
1914 - Maroubra
1914 - Neutral Bay / Kirribilli
1914 - Rose Bay
1915 - Auburn
1915 - Campsie
1916 - Bankstown
1916 - Enfield
1916 - Penshurst
1916 - Rockdale
1916 - Stanmore
1916 - Strathfield
1917 - Arncliffe
1917 - Bondi
1917 - Clovelly
1919 - Belmore
1919 - Five Dock
1922 - Lane Cove
1924 - Cronulla
1924 - Croydon
1924 - Daceyville
1925 - Bondi Beach
1927 - Clifton Gardens
1927 - Watsons Bay
1928 - Ashbury
1928 - Earlwood
1928 - Flemington
1929 - Concord West
1929 - Eastwood
1933 - Hurstville South
1933 - Leichhardt North
1934 - Sutherland
1935 - Lakemba
1935 - Punchbowl
1937 - Berala
1937 - Brighton-le-Sands
1939 - Malabar
1940 - Bexley
1940 - Elizabeth Bay
1940 - Maroubra Bay Beach
1940 - Sans Souci
1942 - Marsfield
1943 - Mortlake
1946 - Beverly Hills
1946 - Fairfield
1946 - Gladesville
1947 - Engadine
1948 - Denistone
1948 - Meadowbank
1948 - Sefton
1948 - Summer Hill
1949 - Cabramatta
1949 - Dover Heights
1949 - Kingsgrove
1949 - Revesby
1949 - Riverwood
1949 - Rosebery
1949 - Smithfield
1951 - Caringbah
1951 - Miranda
1952 - Panania
1953 - Central Bankstown
1953 - Oatley
1953 - Strathfield South
1954 - Botany
1954 - Como / Oyster Bay
1955 - Bass Hill
1955 - Beauty Point
1955 - Belfield
1955 - Blakehurst
1955 - Homebush
1956 - Greenacre
1956 - North Ryde
1957 - Carlton
1957 - Villawood
1958 - Gymea
1959 - Matraville
1959 - Norfolk Island
1959 - Pagewood
1959 - Sylvania
1960 - Horsley Park
1960 - Mt Pritchard
1962 - Auburn South
1963 - Padstow
1963 - Sadleir / Miller
1965 - Austral
1965 - Hoxton Park
1965 - Randwick North
1966 - Clemton Park
1966 - Lurnea
1973 - Georges Hall
1973 - Moorebank
1973 - Peakhust
1974 - Revesby Heights
1980 - Bossley Park
1985 - Bonnyrigg / Edensor Park
1986 - Menai
2002 - Carnes Hill

Listed by Parish:

Annandale - 1898
Arncliffe - 1917
Ashbury - 1928
Ashfield - 1894
Auburn - 1915
Auburn South - 1962
Austral - 1965
Balmain - 1848
Bankstown - 1916
Bass Hill - 1955
Beauty Point - 1955
Belfield - 1955
Belmore - 1919
Berala - 1937
Beverly Hills - 1946
Bexley - 1940
Blakehurst - 1955
Bondi - 1917
Bondi Beach - 1925
Bonnyrigg / Edensor Park - 1985
Bossley Park - 1980
Botany - 1954
Brighton-le-Sands - 1937
Broadway - 1838
Cabramatta - 1949
Camperdown - 1889
Campsie - 1915
Caringbah - 1951
Carlton - 1957
Carnes Hill - 2001
Cathedral - 1821
Central Bankstown - 1953
Church Hill - 1840
Clemton Park - 1966
Clifton Gardens - 1927
Clovelly - 1917
Como / Oyster Bay - 1954
Concord - 1870
Concord West - 1929
Coogee - 1911
Cronulla - 1924
Croydon - 1924
Daceyville - 1924
Darlinghurst - 1850
Denistone - 1948
Dover Heights - 1949
Drummoyne - 1901
Dulwich Hill - 1908
Earlwood - 1928
Eastwood - 1929
Edgecliffe - 1874
Elizabeth Bay - 1940
Enfield - 1916
Engadine - 1947
Enmore - 1909
Erskineville - 1872
Fairfield - 1946
Five Dock - 1919
Flemington - 1928
Forest Lodge - 1877
Georges Hall - 1973
Gladesville - 1946
Greenacre - 1956
Gymea - 1958
Haberfield - 1908
Haymarket - 1908
Holsworthy - 1875
Homebush - 1955
Horsley Park - 1960
Hoxton Park - 1965
Hunters Hill - 1870
Hurstville - 1912
Hurstville South - 1933
Kensington - 1906
Kingsgrove - 1949
Kogarah - 1887
Lakemba - 1935
Lane Cove - 1922
Leichhardt - 1887
Leichhardt North - 1933
Lewisham - 1851
Lidcombe - 1885
Liverpool - 1838
Lurnea - 1966
Malabar - 1939
Maroubra - 1914
Maroubra Bay Beach - 1940
Marrickville - 1886
Marsfield - 1942
Mascot - 1885
Matraville - 1959
Meadowbank - 1948
Menai - 1986
Miranda - 1951
Moorebank - 1973
Mortlake - 1943
Mosman - 1900
Mt Pritchard - 1960
Neutral Bay / Kirribilli - 1914
Newtown - 1869
Norfolk Island - 1959
North Ryde - 1956
North Sydney / Lavender Bay - 1856
Oatley - 1953
Paddington - 1889
Padstow - 1963
Pagewood - 1959
Panania - 1952
Peakhust - 1973
Penshurst - 1916
Punchbowl - 1935
Pyrmont - 1870
Randwick - 1885
Randwick North - 1965
Redfern - 1890
Revesby - 1949
Revesby Heights - 1974
Riverwood - 1949
Rockdale - 1916
Rose Bay - 1914
Rosebery - 1949
Rozelle - 1881
Ryde - 1851
Sadleir / Miller - 1963
Sans Souci - 1940
Sefton - 1948
Smithfield - 1949
Stanmore - 1916
Strathfield - 1916
Strathfield South - 1953
Summer Hill - 1948
Surry Hills - 1880
Sutherland - 1934
Sylvania - 1959
Tempe - 1912
Villawood - 1957
Waterloo - 1859
Watsons Bay - 1927
Waverley - 1865
Woollahra - 1906