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IE IJA J/709
Title
Fr Michael Fitzgibbon SJ
Date(s)
- 1973 (Creation)
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3pp
Context area
Name of creator
(1931-)
Administrative history
The first Jesuits to set foot in Australia, Fr Aloysius Kranewitter SJ and Fr Maximilian Klinkowstroem SJ, came from Austria. They arrived in Adelaide in 1848. In 1853, a property was bought near Clare. Fr Kranewitter named it Sevenhill.
Two Irish Jesuits established a community in Melbourne in 1865, and three more Austrians and one of the first native-born Australians to become a Jesuit established a community in Darwin in 1882.
The Australian Province was formally established in 1950, with Fr Austin Kelly SJ its first Provincial, having being a Vice-Province in 1931.
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Scope and content
Obituary from the 'Province News', the Australia Province of the Society of Jesus, No. 1, pp22 - 24 (June 1973) for Fr Michael Fitzgibbon SJ.