Trinity Catholic College was founded in 1995 from an amalgamation of three schools: Benedict Senior College, St John’s Regional College for Girls, and St Peter Chanel Girls’ High. Today, Trinity Catholic College is a co-educational secondary college providing high quality Catholic education and co-curricular activities and experiences for students in Years 7–12. Read More
In 2021, St Mary’s Catholic Primary School North Sydney and Marist College North Shore combined to form a Kindergarten to Year 12 school on the North Shore called Marist Catholic College North Shore. This will consist of boys and girls. Read More
All Saints Catholic Primary School Liverpool, All Saints Catholic College Liverpool and All Saints Senior College Casula combine to form All Saints Catholic College Liverpool. The school opened in 2020 as the first Kindergarten to Year 12 systemic school in the Archdiocese of Sydney. Read More
In 2017, St Patrick’s Mortlake opened. It is located in the heart of the Mortlake community and has rekindled the area’s traditions of Catholic education since 1895. The school will grow to offer a complete Kindergarten to Year 6 education in subsequent years. The vision for St Patrick’s Catholic Primary School is to provide a warm and welcoming environment that will inspire students to excel and make a positive difference in their world. Read More
St Anthony’s parish officially opened in 1965. With Fr Joe Weaver as parish priest, local families began connecting to create a strong Catholic faith community. Today, Fr Robert (Bob) Hayes is the current parish priest, and is excited to be a part of a distinctive 21st century College. St Anthony of Padua Catholic College Austral opened in 2017 with enrolments of 42 children in Kindergarten. Since then, there have been further enrolments with a goal to cater for students from preschool through to Year 12. Read More
The Eileen O’Connor Catholic College offers a Catholic education for students with a moderate intellectual disability and other complex learning needs. Named after the co-founder of the Society of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor, the College is set to provide a complete education for students with special needs from Kindergarten to Year 12. Read More
Our lady of the Assumption opened in 2015. When it first opened, it welcomed its first Kindergarten to Year 2 cohort. Now the school delivers personalised learning to challenge and meet the needs and interests of all students from Kindergarten to Year 6.
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Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP, was born in Sydney on 10 March 1960. In 1985, Archbishop Fisher entered the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) and studied for priesthood in Melbourne. Archbishop Fisher made his perpetual vows for the Dominicans on 18 February 1987, and was ordained a priest at Holy Name Parish, Wahroonga, on 14 September 1991. On 16 July 2003, Pope John Paul II appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney, and he was ordained a Bishop on 3 September 2003. On 18 September 2014, Pope Francis appointed Bishop Anthony the ninth Archbishop of Sydney. Read More
The announcement of St Mary MacKillop’s canonisation was made on 19 February 2010, with the canonisation taking place on 17 October 2010. This made her the first Australian to be recognised as a saint. Read More
Before Southern Cross Burwood opened, a previous school was established in 1909. The school closed down in 2010. In 2008, the Sydney Catholic Schools were successful in receiving The Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) funding. With this funding, the first round of Trade Training Centres (TTC) in schools came about, starting with a vocationally focused Senior Secondary College at Burwood.
With the appointment of its inaugural principal, Mr Patrick O’Reilly (2010–2019) Southern Cross Catholic College was founded in 2010 for this purpose. In 2021, the school changed its name to Southern Cross Catholic College to encompass the performing arts specialist stream.
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The school closed in 2010, its centenary year. The school was converted to a Year 11 and 12 school called Southern Cross Vocational Catholic College for students to combine studies for senior school qualifications with higher level national qualifications at Certificate II and III level.
The SACS Board suggested that the school would continue to face declining enrolments due to the 2002 statistics, therefore it was decided to close the school at the end of the 2006 school year.
Clancy Catholic College opened on 31 January 2006. The school was named in 2005 after Archbishop Cardinal Edward Clancy, which the school still honours today. Cardinal Clancy was on site to ring the first bell at 8.30am and usher in the school’s first intake of students. The student population is now more than 1200 and approximately 130 staff.
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In June 2005, following extensive discussion and consultation, it was decided that St Thomas Becket School would close at the end of the 2005 school year.
Galilee Catholic Primary School was formed by the amalgamation of St Anne’s, Bondi Beach and St Patrick’s, Bondi. During 2001, it was decided from the beginning of 2002, St Anne’s School would amalgamate with St Patrick’s to become St Patrick’s and St Anne’s Primary School, Bondi Beach. Archbishop George Pell gave approval for the new school to be named Galilee Catholic Primary School. On 20 October 2002, the new school and refurbished facilities were blessed and opened by Archbishop George Pell. Today the school still operates as a boys and girls primary school for Kindergarten to Year 6. Read More
St Christopher’s Holsworthy opened on 4 February 2002. Mrs Maureen Higgs was appointed founding principal from the beginning of Term 4, 2001 in order for final preparations to be made for the school’s opening in 2002. When the school first opened there were 54 pupils in Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2. Today, the school still operates as a primary school for boys and girls from Kindergarten to Year 6. Read More
On the feast of the Annunciation, 25 March 2001, Holy Spirit Parish was created and Fr Meagher appointed parish priest. On Wednesday 30 January 2002, Holy Spirit Primary School opened in demountable classrooms on a temporary site at Main Street, Carnes Hill, leased from Liverpool Council. The opening enrolment was 42 boys and girls: a Kindergarten class of 25, a composite Kindergarten/Year 1/Year 2 class of 17 children and 5 staff members. Today, over 46 cultural groups make up the mosaic of our school community, with the majority of students and families from a language background other than English.
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Due to low enrolments, the Sydney Archdiocesan Catholic Schools Board in June 2000 decided that the college would close at the end of 2001.
Cardinal George Pell was born in Ballarat, on 8 June 1941. He was ordained a Catholic priest for the Diocese of Ballarat by Cardinal Agagianian in St Peter’s Basilica, Rome, on 16 December 1966. On 26 March 2001, Pope John Paul II appointed Cardinal Pell the eighth Metropolitan Archbishop of Sydney. He was installed as Archbishop at St Mary’s Cathedral on 10 May 2001. Read More
Good Samaritan Catholic College was established in 1999 as a co-educational college and began with 99 Year 7 students. The college was officially Blessed and Opened on Sunday, 12 September 1999 by Bishop David Cremin. The College population is made up of many different backgrounds and is still a college for Years 7–12 students. Read More
Saint Catherine of Siena Catholic Primary School Prestons was founded in 1999 to serve the parish of St Francis Xavier’s Lurnea. The school opened in February 1999. The school was blessed and opened by Bishop David Cremin on 11 March 1999. From small beginnings with just 48 students, 5 staff members and temporary classrooms, the school has continued to grow and develop into a welcoming and inclusive learning environment. The school today has over 600 students and 50 staff members and has contemporary learning spaces that cater to the unique passions and gifts of every child. Read More
The college was formed by the amalgamation of De La Salle Catholic College Bankstown and Benilde Catholic College in 1999. The site was also previously occupied by Nazareth College. The school is now co-educational in Years 7–12 and contains its own trade training centre called St Yon which offers vocational pathways to students in Years 11 & 12. Read More
Holy Spirit College, Lakemba was founded in 1999 through the amalgamation of two adjacent Years 7–10 regional schools, MacKillop Girls’ High and St John’s College, Lakemba. St John’s College had been founded by the De La Salle Brothers in 1954, while MacKillop Girls’ had been founded and run by the Sisters of St Joseph since 1966. The new college was co-educational, with Years 7–11 being enrolled in 1999 and the first Year 12 classes being held in 2000. The SACS Board made the decision to amalgamate the two schools after careful consultation with parents in the area. The board pointed out that the pattern of high school enrolment had changed since the 1960’s, and that increasingly parents expressed their wish to have a continuous Years 7–12 education at their regional secondary Catholic High School. Today, the school still runs as a boys and girls school for Years 7–12. Read More
Good Shepherd parish was established in November 1994 to cater for the Catholic community of this developing area on the south-western border of the Archdiocese of Sydney. On 5 February 1997, Good Shepherd welcomed its first 54 students and their first 3 teachers. Since then, the school has grown to be a place where each person is nurtured to realise their full potential as members of the Good Shepherd community. Read More
Due to declining enrolments in schools St Joseph Rozelle and St Augustine Balmain, it was decided by the Catholic Education Office to amalgamate the parish schools of Balmain and Rozelle. A new school was established named in honour of the founder of Catholic Education in Australia and the parish priest associated with both Balmain and Rozelle, Fr John Therry. Today the school is a primary school for boys and girls from Kindergarten to Year 6. Read More
Named after an eminent Doctor of the Church, Aquinas College, Menai was opened by Cardinal Edward Clancy in 1993. This was to be a secondary school for the rapidly growing residential area which had formerly belonged to the parish of Sutherland. Aquinas College opened with 50 boys and girls in Year 7, 7 teachers and 2 ancillary staff, all under the leadership of the founding principal, Mr Peter Turner. The college has continued to grow with the first Year 12 class completing their HSC in 1998. In 2020, the college had 1080 students and 112 staff. Read More
Bethany College was founded in 1993 as a result of the amalgamation of two girls’ schools: St Mary’s Star of the Sea, Hurstville, which had been established by the Sisters of Charity in 1895, and St Joseph’s Girls’ High School, Kogarah, an old school which had been developed into a high school by the Sisters of St Joseph, who had come to Kogarah in 1914. Both schools had provided
for Years 7-10 girls. Today the school is a high school for girls from Years 7–12. Read More
In June 1989, the SACS Board recommended that a new secondary school for girls in Years 7-12 should be built at Wakeley on the site of an abandoned drive-in theatre. This school would eventually replace Our Lady of the Rosary High at Fairfield. In 1991, the first Year 11 girls were enrolled at Our Lady of the Rosary High, Fairfield and in June they moved to the Wakeley site, where Stage One of the buildings had just been completed. On 18 August 1991 Mary MacKillop College, Wakeley was officially opened by Cardinal Edward Clancy. Today the school is still a College for girls from Years 7–12. Read More
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