The Sisters of Mercy, Bathurst Congregation, a Catholic religious order of women from Ireland, was established in 1867. The Sisters were responsible for the administration of two children’s homes owned by the Catholic Diocese of Bathurst: St Joseph’s Orphanage, Bathurst which operated from 1867 to 1975; and Croagh Patrick Orphanage, Orange which they were responsible…
The Daughters of Our Lady of Compassion ran St Anne’s Home of Compassion at Broken Hill from 1941 until 1984, until they withdrew from the home. In 2013 the Sisters of Compassion were based in New Zealand.
The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent De Paul is a Catholic religious order that arrived in Sydney in 1926. The Australian Province of the Daughters of Charity later expanded beyond New South Wales, to regions including South Australia. The activities of the Daughters of Charity focus on serving and supporting the marginalised and disadvantaged….
The Order of the Hospitaller Brothers of St John of God came to Australia from Ireland in 1947. Its first work was a residential school in New South Wales for boys with learning difficulties called Kendall Grange at Morriset Park, in the Hunter region (1948-2000). The Order also ran children’s homes and family services in…
Centacare, Broken Bay was established in May 1988 following a restructuring of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, which resulted in the creation of the Diocese of Broken Bay. The role of Centacare, Broken Bay was to provide a range of professional community services within the Diocese, including the provision of extended and crisis care programs…
Centacare Newcastle was established in 1965 as the official welfare arm of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle. In 2011 its name was changed to CatholicCare Hunter-Manning Social Services. It was an adoption agency in its own right, but from 1997 handled Catholic and Anglican adoptions in the Newcastle area on behalf of…
The St Vincent de Paul Society is a Catholic religious organisation with a volunteer base who work to assist people in need and counter social injustice. The Society of St Vincent de Paul established its first conference in Australia in Melbourne in 1854. It then established conferences across the country, with one in New South…
The Catholic Children’s Homes Enquiry Service was set up in 1994 by Centacare Adoptions Agency (which later became CatholicCare Adoption Services) to provide a centralised information, counselling and referral service for those people previously in Homes or looking for relatives who had been in a Catholic Children’s Home. Since the 1800s, the Catholic Church has…
CatholicCare Adoption Services was created in 2011, replacing Centacare Adoption Services. It was part of CatholicCare Sydney. CatholicCare Adoption Services dealt with Catholic adoptions, both current and past. It was a central repository for all files relating to Catholic adoptions in New South Wales. It also ran the Catholic Children’s Homes Enquiry Service. In 2018,…
The Catholic Adoption Agency was established in 1967 under the auspices of the Society of St Vincent de Paul. It was the adoption agency for the area covered by the Sydney Archdiocese of the Catholic Church. It was founded in response to the 1965 Adoption of Children Act, which regulated adoption and provided for the…
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