St Mary's Cathedral College

St Mary’s Cathedral College is a Years 3-12 Catholic boys College in the heart of the City of Sydney. The College in some ways is a microcosm of the development of Catholic Education in Australia. It was established in 1824 by one of the early pioneers of education in Australia, Fr John Therry, who set out to provide an education for mostly poor children in an emerging colony. Since 1828, secondary education has been conducted on the same site by four different religious orders. The Christian Brothers’ education of young men and stewardship of the College began in 1911 and concluded in 2015 after 105 years of outstanding service and educational leadership, the majority of it with no government funding until the 1960s.