Closure of St Joseph’s Convent School Margaret River

WA Conference of Bishops established a Catholic Institute Constitutive Committee to plan the needs of training of Catholics in WA

Ordination of Fr Hugh Galloway in Albany

Episcopal ordination of Most Rev Peter Quinn as Auxiliary Bishop of Perth

Myles McKeon enthroned as second Bishop of Bunbury

Opening by Hon D H O’Neil and blessing by Bishop McKeon of the Star of the Sea Lodge at Esperance

New church of Our Lady’s Assumption – blessed and opened by Archbishop Goody in Mandurah

Enthronement of L J Goody as Archbishop of Perth

Appointment of L J Goody as Archbishop of Perth to succeed Redmond Prendiville

Work began on a new church in Mandurah, designed by Architect Anthony O’Hara, and a presbytery on Pinjarra Road enabled by Mr Biaggio Paganoni

Death of Archbishop Prendiville of Perth

Blessing and opening of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Condingup

Official Opening and blessing of St Joseph’s Convent Esperance when Sr Carla and Sr Stephanie of the Brown Josephites take up residence

Opening of Villa Maria Homes in Busselton by Bishop Goody, initiated by Jack and Maud Ray (formerly of Kalgarin) with Mons. C Cunningham

Ordinations of Fr Russell Hardiman and Fr Paul Merks, Centennial Oval Hall, Albany

Ordination in Katanning parish school of Fr John Bonato SM

Ordination of Fr Leon Russell at St Mary’s Cathedral, Perth by Bishop Goody for Bunbury Diocese

Official Blessing and Opening of Our Lady of the Way

Official Blessing and Opening of the Church of the Holy Cross, Salmon Gums

Mandurah school moved from the church school to a cottage on the nuns’ holiday home site, lasting there until 1967 before closing

Participation of Bishop Goody at the Second Council of the Vatican in Rome

Episcopal Ordination of Bishop Myles McKeon as Auxiliary Bishop of Perth

Bishop Goody consecrated St Patrick’s Church Katanning, first church in Bunbury Diocese and only second in all WA

Sister of Mercy announce their withdrawal from Esperance. Parish undertook to buy the convent, and convert it into flats

 First Bushies Schools in Esperance at Fresh Air League Camp

Ordination of Fr Pat Rooney at St Joseph’s Church Manjimup by Bishop Goody

Presentation Sisters re opened the Mandurah school in the church with 40 pupils