Dictionary of Sydney

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O'Flynn, Jeremiah Francis

Priest who helped to publicize the needs of Catholics in New South Wales and to influence the British government in 1820 to allow the first official Roman Catholic missionaries to be sent to Australia.

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Born
Kerry, Ireland
25 Dec 1788
Arrived Sydney
09 Nov 1817
Departed Sydney
20 May 1818
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