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The Arrival of Christianity in Australia
Religion in Australia Pre-1945.
The arrival of Christianity in Australia.
26 January 1788- followers of the Church of England, Catholics, Methodists, Presbyterians, Jews, deists, agnostics and unbelievers come to Sydney.
Deists- person who believes, on the basis of reason rather than revelation, in the existence of a God who created the earth but is not involved in it.
Agnostics- person who holds the view that you can neither prove nor disprove the existence of god and that the essential nature of things is unknowable.
They bought a growing tolerance of this diversity of beliefs and the sectarian intolerance that had characterized England, wales, Scotland and Ireland since Henry VIII broke from the Roman Catholic Church in 1543.
Act of Toleration (1779)- written for the coexistent of virtually and denominations of all Protestant and Catholicism in England.
Not until Test and Corporation Acts of 1828 that British law permitted ‘non- conforming’ (non- Church of England) Protestants to hold government offices and be members of parliament or attend university. Catholics receive the same rights after the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829.
William Broughton- the first Anglican Bishop.

Official sectarianism.
Sectarianism (1788)- excessive devotion to a particular religious denomination. It is a bitterness, hostility, division between 2 religions to the extent that one thinks they are better than the other – mainly between Catholics and Protestant, i.e. Irish and England.
Arthur Phillip (first governor)- supported the Church of England by insisting that all convicts, no matter what their beliefs, should attend church’s service on Sundays. “Transubstantiation shall not exist in this Australia Colony” (the real presence). I.e. catholic could not practice in Australia.
This decision not allow Catholics to worship according to their own religion. For most of the first 30 years of the colony Catholics were not permitted to have a Priest minister to their

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