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Catherine Coffey

Teacher of Catholic catechism in colonial Australia

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Catherine Brosnaham Coffey was an Irish-born Australian pioneer in the Port Phillip District who was the first Catholic school teacher in Melbourne and the first sacristan of the first Catholic church in Victoria, St Francis. She taught catechism classes to children in colonial Melbourne prior to the arrival of the colony's first Catholic priest in 1839. Coffey’s contribution to Catholic education was celebrated in a St Patrick’s Day pageant at the Melbourne Town Hall in 1930 and she was singled out by Archbishop Justin Simonds in 1939 in a requiem for pioneers as “an outstanding Catholic personality”.

Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image by Advocate (Melbourne, Vic. : 1868 - 1954) Thu 9 Apr 1936 Page 13 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Occupation: catechist
Citizenship: Australia
Born: 1805
Died: 1894

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