Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the consecration of its first bishop, the archdiocese of Adelaide has received felicitations from the Pope expressing satisfaction at the proposed establishment of a Provincial Major Seminary.
Adelaide was founded under Wakefield's schenre for model English colonial settlement, with little expectation of, or provision for, Catholic participation. However, the missionary zeal of Fr. Ullathorne, later Archbishop of Birmingham, who travelled 1,400 miles to celebrate the first Mass there, and later the generosity of the converts of the first bishop, together with contributions of goldminers in other parts of Austialia, made the archdiocese of Adelaide a substantial part of the Church in Australia.