James Goold Research Paper

James Goold- Person Of God, Leader, Mediator

Jacqueline Flett

James Alipus Goold “looked like a cherub but he was as impetuous as a fallen Archangel.” as some say. He was a Roman Catholic Archbishop. He was a significant figure in the Australian gold rush for many reasons in that case we still use and abide by his words and buildings that he created. He brought to Melbourne and the miners and government Superlative compassion and care.

Without his efforts to the church we wouldn’t be able to see Melbourne’s St Patrick’s Cathedral today.

He was born on the 4th November 1812 in Cork Ireland; he was a Roman Catholic archbishop. He was schooled at an Augustan school, and then later entered the order of St Augustan (religious order). He made his novitiate at Gratstown Wexford, and studied divinity (theology) at Rome and Perugia. He met in Rome with a doctor named Dr William Ullathorne after he was Ordained in 1835. James returned to Ireland to obtain

In 1850 James Goold had a central contribution to the defense of Irish immigrated orphans who were attacked by officialdom because of inability to assimilate into an urban community. Through the decade James led Catholic oppositions to Anglican claims of precedence at the government functions. The dispute culminated when James and his clergy boycotted the queen’s birthday levee in 1859. By then all his efforts to make the catholic churches a recognized influence within the colony had been a great success; consequently the physical growth of the church was more obvious.

James Goold had many needs for the church and for help to the colony’s he had seen. The first priority was a need for a catholic church in port Phillip district; the second was ecclesiastical and school buildings. To raise the funds for supplement, of the needs the governments grant he launched the catholic association in January 1849 that he had already