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History of Christianity in Australia
History of Christianity in Australia
"The Church, in obedience to the command of her founder, strives to preach the Gospel to all."
"Christianity came to Australia on the First Fleet with Richard Johnson as a Church of England Chaplain who was joined in 1794 by the Rev. Samuel Marsden. Rev. Marsden was also a strict magistrate which highlighted the hope of the authorities that religion would promote a moral and lawful society under the British crown.
Samuel Leigh, the first Methodist minister arrived in 1815 and in 1823 John Dunmore Lang, a Presbyterian minister came to Sydney.
The Catholic Irish convicts were forced to attend Church of England ceremonies and although James Dixon, a...
History of Christianity in Australia
"The Church, in obedience to the command of her founder, strives to preach the Gospel to all."
"Christianity came to Australia on the First Fleet with Richard Johnson as a Church of England Chaplain who was joined in 1794 by the Rev. Samuel Marsden. Rev. Marsden was also a strict magistrate which highlighted the hope of the authorities that religion would promote a moral and lawful society under the British crown.
Samuel Leigh, the first Methodist minister arrived in 1815 and in 1823 John Dunmore Lang, a Presbyterian minister came to Sydney.
The Catholic Irish convicts were forced to attend Church of England ceremonies and although James Dixon, a...
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