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Catholic Education Cairns
Catholic Education in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cairns, Diocese of Cairns, Australia, educates over 11,200 students from north in the Torres Strait, west to the Atherton Tablelands, and as far as Tully in the South. There are 29 Catholic Schools in the Diocese, including primary, secondary, college and boarding. The Catholic Education Services office is located in Cairns, on the corner of Lake and Minnie Street, and takes all enquires for the Diocese. List of schools and colleges {, class="wikitable sortable" !Name !Suburb !Opened !Website !Notes , - , Good Counsel College, Innisfail, Good Counsel College , Innisfail, Queensland, Innisfail , 1975Website, Year 7 – 12 Co-Educational Day Schooling , - , Good Counsel Primary School , Innisfail, Queensland, Innisfail , 1975Website, Prep – Year 6 , - , Holy Cross Primary School , Trinity Park, Cairns , 1987Website, Prep – Year 6 OSHCare , - , Holy Spirit College Cooktown , Cooktown, Queensland, Cooktown , 2015Website, The fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Catholic Diocese Of Cairns
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cairns is a diocese of the Catholic Church located in the state of Queensland, Australia. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Brisbane. The diocese was erected as a vicariate apostolic in 1877 and was elevated to a diocese in 1941. Its territorial remit is Far North Queensland. St Monica's Cathedral is the seat of the Catholic Bishop of Cairns, currently vacant. History Following the discovery of gold near Cooktown in 1872 and the establishment and growth of sugar production during the 1870s, the Bishop of Brisbane, James Quinn, visited Cooktown in 1874. The first church was opened a year later. Quinn had earlier been petitioning the Roman Curia to create a vicariate in north Queensland to minister to Catholics in the region and to evangelise the Aborigines, with the Vicariate Apostolic of Queensland officially created on 27 January 1877 by Pope Pius IX. The Vicariate consisted of all the land in Queensland north of the line start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |