Religion Assessment- Summary (Part ll) Biography: Father James Dixon was a Roam Catholic Priest who was born in 1758 at Castle Bridge and did in 1840. He was educated by a neighboring Parish priest and later at Salamanca, and Louvain where he completed his course in 1784 and became a curate at Crossabeg parish, near Wexford. He was then arrested in 1789 under doubt of taking part in the Irish rebellion and of having demanded a company of rebels at Tubberneering. He was found guilty and sentenced to death, but was reprieved conditional on his being transported for life. He arrived in NSW in the Friendship on 16 January 1800. He remained in Sydney, where his conduct satisfied the authorities. In around 1795-1798 the political uprising in Ireland resulted in the deportation of political prisoners such as the 3 Catholics priests, Father Harold, Dixon and O’Neil. Contributions to Christianity: Father James Dixon was the first convict priest in Australia who made many changes to the Catholic Church. He was found guilty of participating in the 1798 Irish Rebellion and sent to the Australian penal colony in 1800. Released in 1803, he was granted an ecclesiastical appointment as a ‘prefect Apostolic’ of New Holland and not only becoming a prefect he also became the founding father of Australian Catholicism and also the first formal Ecclesiastical …show more content…
One of the most important was the masses that he held within the convict community, he also held the first Catholic marriage and then to continue preaching to Catholics around Australia and when he went back to Ireland. The services that he provided whilst he was in Australia helped bring the community together in a variety of different ways as most of events held were public events. He had a massive impact on the community not only in his presents of living but in nowadays, he is still remembered and followed in his