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<div class="grow-0 shrink basis-auto px-6 pt-5 pb-6 bg-action-primary-blue-100 "><span class="font-museo font-extrabold text-white text-2xl md:text-4xl">1833</span></div>
<div class="shrink grow basis-0 px-6 pt-5 pb-6 flex items-center">Frederic Ozanam establishes the St Vincent de Paul Society in Paris on 23 April 1833</div>
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<div class="grow-0 shrink basis-auto px-6 pt-5 pb-6 bg-action-primary-blue-100 "><span class="font-museo font-extrabold text-white text-2xl md:text-4xl">1854</span></div>
<div class="shrink grow basis-0 px-6 pt-5 pb-6 flex items-center">The St Vincent de Paul Society was initially established in Australia in 1854 by Father Gerald Ward. After a period of inactivity, the Society was re-established in Sydney in 1881 by Captain Charles O’Neill.</div>
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<h2>1899</h2>
<p>St Vincent de Paul Society’s first Tasmanian Conference was formed in Launceston’s Church of the Apostles, Launceston’s first President, James Vincent Sullivan, was a prominent journalist of the time.</p>

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<div class="grow-0 shrink basis-auto px-6 pt-5 pb-6 bg-action-primary-blue-100 "><span class="font-museo font-extrabold text-white text-2xl md:text-4xl">1905</span></div>
<div class="shrink grow basis-0 px-6 pt-5 pb-6 flex items-center">A second Tasmanian Conference was established in Hobart.</div>
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<div class="grow-0 shrink basis-auto px-6 pt-5 pb-6 bg-action-primary-blue-100 "><span class="font-museo font-extrabold text-white text-2xl md:text-4xl">1911</span></div>
<div class="shrink grow basis-0 px-6 pt-5 pb-6 flex items-center">By 1911 Conferences were at New Norfolk, Franklin, and Cygnet, Devonport, Latrobe, Deloraine, Wynyard, and Westbury; the Hobart Conference was divided into two – one for St Mary’s Cathedral, another for St Joseph’s Church, and Tasmania’s first Particular Council for the Southern Conferences was formed. Later in the same year, the Launceston Conference was split in two and a Particular Council for Northern Tasmania was established.</div>
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<h2>1927</h2>
<p>3rd Australasian Congress held in Hobart – 27 February to 5 March</p>

<h2>1951</h2>
<p>9<sup>th</sup> Australian Congress held in Hobart – 28 October to 4 November</p>

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<div class="shrink grow basis-0 px-6 pt-5 pb-6 flex items-center">On 5 March 2023, Mark Gaetani officially inducted as the 18th National Council President by Archbishop Christopher Prowse at St Christophers Church in Canberra, after being elected by his peers on 5 November 2022.</div>
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