Christian Brothers College (CBC) is a private Catholic school in Adelaide, South Australia. It was founded by a group of Irish Christian Brothers in 1878. It is now one of three Christian Brothers schools in the state, along with St Paul's College, Adelaide and Rostrevor College. Like the other colleges, the influence of the original Christian Brothers has waned, and it is now administered by EREA. The last brother left the school in 2007.
CBC is predominantly a secondary school, although it has a primary school campus, with a combined student population of approximately 970 (as of 2024).
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Houses
Christian Brothers College has six houses. Each house is named after a person or place connected with the story of Edmund Ignatius Rice.
Upon commencement at the college, each student is assigned to one of the six houses:
In the senior campus for Christian Brothers College, students can nominate to be a leader of their house.
Notable alumni
Arts and entertainment
C.J. Dennis, poet
Roy Rene, alias of Henry van der Sluys, pioneering comedian, "Australia's Charlie Chaplin"
Benedict Samuel, actor
Xavier Samuel, actor
Politics
James Arnold, senator
Anthony Byrne, former Federal Member of Parliament
Bill Denny, state MP 1900–1933
John Gazzola, former President of the South Australian Legislative Council
Justin Hanson, state Member of Parliament
Eric Heenan, Western Australian politician
Tom Howard, trade unionist and politician
Stephan Knoll, former State Member of Parliament
John Madden, Tasmanian politician
Charles McHugh, senator
Sir Robert Nicholls, state politician, speaker 1933–1956.
Sir Baden Pattinson. MP for Glenelg, 1947–1965. Minister of Education, 1953–1965
Sports
Alby Bahr, Australian rules footballer
Frank Barry, Australian rules footballer
Leonard Chamberlain, first-class cricketer and Australian rules footballer
Mick Clingly, Australian rules footballer
Colin Egar, test cricket umpire
Jaime Fernandez, three-time Olympic rower
Michael Frederick, Australian rules footballer
Sir Edmund Britten Jones, cricketer and Australian rules footballer. Rhodes scholar
Tom Leahy, Australian rules footballer
Jack Londrigan, Australian rules footballer
Tom MacKenzie, Australian rules footballer
Dan Moriarty, Australian rules footballer
Jack Nash, cricketer and Australian rules footballer
Peter Nelson, Olympic cyclist
Laurence Power, cricketer and operatic tenor
Neville Roberts, Australian rules footballer
Other
James Cavanagh, architect
Vice Admiral Ray Griggs, senior public servant
Sir Aubrey Lewis, Psychiatrist, first Professor of Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, London (now part of King's College London)
Paul McGuire, diplomat
Paul Vasileff, fashion designer
Samuel Albert White, racehorse owner, soldier, explorer, conservationist and amateur ornithologist
Notable staff
Carl Püttmann
Controversy
In May 2014, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse heard that a long line of Christian Brothers accused of child sex abuse were transferred to Christian Brothers College in Adelaide from 1919 to 1969.
On 12 December 2018, a former teacher at Christian Brothers College was sentenced to at least two years in prison for having a sexual relationship with one of her students over a two-month period in 2016.