Diocese of Brisbane - William Tyrrell

William Tyrrell

1st Bishop of Newcastle (1847 - 1859)

1847	William Tyrrell was consecrated the 1st Bishop of Newcastle
1848	Tyrrell arrived in Australia in January having brought with him 3 priests, 7 candidates for Holy Orders (2 of whom died shortly after arrival), a school master, a school mistress and some servants
	Bishop Tyrrell left the Brisbane part of the Diocese in the hands of the newly-ordained Benjamin Glennie (one of the candidates he had brought with him from England) - he managed to visit the district himself only every second year
1850	Foundation Stone for St John's new church in William Street, Brisbane was laid
1854	St John's Church was completed and consecrated
1856	Bishop Tyrrell drew to the attention of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in London the fact that his diocese "necessitated a ride on horseback of over 1,000 miles to traverse it" and that the only solution he could see was the formation of a new Diocese
1859	Diocese of Brisbane was formed