Dominic Fursey Bodkin (23 July 1843 – 20 February 1929) was a
Christian Brother and a Catholic educator in Australia.
Early life
Bodkin was born near
Tuam,
County Galway
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, Ireland in 1843. He attended the Christian Brothers school in Tuam.
Religious life
Aged 16 years, Bodkin entered the
novitiate
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of the Christian Brothers in
Dublin. He taught in a number of schools during his training, but mostly in
Waterford.
believed there was a need for religious teachers for schools in his diocese. In 1867 Goold visited Europe and with the assistance of the Cardinal Prefect of Propaganda (now the
Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples) he obtained the assistance of a group of Irish Christian Brothers.
Bodkin,
John Barnabas Lynch
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,
Patrick Joseph Nolan
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and
Patrick Ambrose Treacy
Patrick Ambrose Treacy CFC (31 August 1834 – 2 October 1912) was a Roman Catholic educationist who established the first permanent Christian Brothers community in Australia in 1868.
Early life
Treacy was born on 31 August 1834 in Thurl ...
left Ireland for
Melbourne to establish the Christian Brothers in Australia, arriving in
Port Philip Bay
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on the ''Donald Mckay'' on 18 November 1868.
In 1869 they established their first school at the rear of
St Francis Church in
Elizabeth Street, Melbourne. Their monastery and second school,
Parade College, was established in
Victoria Parade,
East Melbourne.
On 24 April 1876, Bodkin opened a school in Rattray Street,
Dunedin,
South Island
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, New Zealand, becoming its first principal. In 1989 this school merged with other Catholic schools in Dunedin to become
Kavanagh College.
Bodkin was the first principal of
St Joseph's College, Nudgee in
Brisbane,
Queensland, which opened in 1891.
He returned to Dunedin and then about 1904 moved to
Western Australia where he worked with orphans on farm schools.
Later life
Aged 85 years, Bodkin died on 20 February 1929 at
Clontarf Orphanage,
Western Australia.
References
External links
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Congregation of Christian Brothers
Australian Roman Catholic priests
1843 births
1929 deaths
Religious leaders from Dunedin
Irish emigrants to colonial Australia
Irish Christian Brothers
People from Tuam