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Religions in Australia
Australia is a religiously diverse nation with over 25 major religious denominations represented. According to 2001 census the religious belief which existed in Australia approximately 100 kinds of many. Meanwhile, almost 5%of the population identify themselves with a religion other than Christianity, including Judaism, Hinduism,Buddhism and Islam. And people in the 18-24 years age group were the most likely to state that they had no religion.
Christianity is the major religion in Australia. Although the first public Roman Catholic Mass was celebrated in 1803, regular services did not begin until the arrival of the first two official Catholic Chaplains to the colony in 1820. In 1821 Governor Lachlan Macquarie laid the foundation stone of St Mary’s Chapel in Sydney but the first Catholic Church was pleted until 1833 in Parramatta. Presbyterian settlers came from Scotland and Ulster and built a church on the Hawkesbury River near Windsor in 1809. Methodist classes began in Windsor in 1812 and the first church was built in Castlereagh in 1817.
The first Orthodox Church service in was celebrated on board a Russian ship moored in Sydney Cove during Easter 1820. Regular Orthodox parish life began in Sydney and Melbourne in 1895. The first Congregationalist church was established in Tasmania in 1822. The