Society of the Catholic Apostolate, Australian Region Archives, Perth

Identity area

Identifier

daa/597

Authorized form of name

Society of the Catholic Apostolate, Australian Region Archives, Perth

Parallel form(s) of name

Other form(s) of name

  • Archives of the Pallottine Fathers and Brothers - Australian Region
  • Pallottine Archives

Type

  • Religious

Contact area

 

Archivist

Type

Address

Street address

60 Fifth Avenue, Rossmoyne

Locality

Perth

Region

Western Australia

Country name

Postal code

6148

Telephone

08 9354 0208

Fax

Note

Description area

History

In their present form, the Archives of the Pallottine Fathers and Brothers - Australian Region are of recent origin. In the early 1990s Br Wim van Veen had been given the task of collating the history of the Pallottine Mission, Tardun (opened in 1948). In 1997 Fr Kelvin Kenny SAC was appointed as Archivist, to establish some sort of order in the documents that were accumulating in all Pallottine houses around Australia.

The Pallottines had come to Australia in 1901 to take over the Trappist missions to the Aboriginal people of Beagle Bay in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. In 1935 the Pallottine superior was appointed Bishop. Thus he was both the superior of the Pallottines in Australia and Vicar Apostolic of the Kimberley. When Broome became a diocese, all earlier records held in Broome became Diocesan records and part of the Diocesan archives.

The material in this archives dates from the early 1930s when the Society established a community in Kew, Victoria. The Australian Region was promulgated in November 1946 and Kew was the headquarters. The Regional headquarters moved to Rossmoyne, Western Australia in 1984 and back to Kew in 2014.

The main collection is controlled from the rear of the Epiphany Hall at 60 Fifth Avenue, Rossmoyne, Western Australia. There are parts of the collection that reside at Pallotti College, Box Hill, Kew, and at other houses in the west.

(For more information, see https://www.pallottine.org.au/history/archives.html)

Geographical and cultural context

Mandates/Sources of authority

Administrative structure

Records management and collecting policies

Buildings

Holdings

Paper, images, digital items and some artefacts of the priests and brothers in Australia, 1901 to present.

Finding aids, guides and publications

Sr Brigida Nialon CSB has published the history of the Pallottines in Australia under the title ‘Nothing is wasted in the household of God’.

Access area

Opening times

Archivist available one day per week via email only.

Access conditions and requirements

Accessibility

Services area

Research services

Reproduction services

Public areas

Control area

Description identifier

Institution identifier

Rules and/or conventions used

Status

Level of detail

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

Prepared 17 February 2018

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Maintenance notes

Access points

Access Points

  • Religion (Thematic area)
  • Clipboard

Primary contact

60 Fifth Avenue, Rossmoyne
Perth, Western Australia 6148