History
Bishop James Quinn arrived in his diocese in 1861. Bishop Quinn soon began his first visitation of the diocese accompanied by two of the recently arrived Priests, Fathers, Renehan, and Tissot. They left Brisbane on the steamer Clarence on July 23, 1861 and two days later were in Maryborough. Fr. Tissot remained on in Maryborough thus becoming its first resident Priest.
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