Second Australian Plenary Council, 17 November – 1 December 1895

Assembled bishops of Australia at the 1895 2nd Australian Plenary Council. Photo taken in the Aula Maxima of St Patrick’s College, Manly, NSW. Source: MDHC Photo Collection, published in Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 4, p. 9 (October 1974)


This is the fifth in the series of articles by Peter Wilkinson looking at the particular provincial and plenary councils of the Catholic Church held in Australia between 1844 and 1937. It examines the 1895 Second Australian Plenary Council. 

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