Bishop's House, Cairns
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Bishop's House, Cairns, 2015
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| Location | Abbott Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 16°55′00″S 145°46′21″E / 16.9168°S 145.7724°ECoordinates: 16°55′00″S 145°46′21″E / 16.9168°S 145.7724°E |
| Design period | 1919 - 1930s (interwar period) |
| Built | 1930 |
| Architect | Joseph Phelan |
| Official name: Bishop's House, St Monica's Monastery/Priory | |
| Type | state heritage (built) |
| Designated | 1 July 1997 |
| Reference no. | 601747 |
| Significant period | 1930s (fabric) 1930s- (historical, social) |
| Significant components | furniture/fittings, steps/stairway, verandahs - arcaded, statue, residential accommodation - bishop's house, fence/wall - perimeter |
| Builders | Michael Garvey |
 Location of Bishop's House, Cairns in Queensland
Location of Bishop's House, Cairns in Queensland
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Bishop's House is a heritage-listed former Roman Catholic monastery and now bishop's residence at Abbott Street, Cairns, Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Father Joseph Phelan and built in 1930 by Michael Garvey. It is also known as St Monica's Monastery/Priory. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 1 July 1997.
The Bishop's House at Cairns, a two-storeyed reinforced concrete building, was erected in 1930 as a monastery for the Augustinian fathers who administered the Vicariate Apostolic of Cooktown, and St Monica's Parish in Cairns. It replaced an 1887 timber presbytery.
Cairns was established in October 1876, as a port to service the Hodgkinson goldfields. In the same year the area from Cardwell to Cape York was separated from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brisbane as the Pro-Vicariate of North Queensland. In 1884 three Irish Augustinian fathers took charge of the Pro-Vicariate, establishing a monastery at Cooktown, and founding the parish of St Monica's at Cairns in 1885. An acre of land bounded by Abbott, Minnie and Lake Streets was acquired and the first St Monica's Church, a timber building at the corner of Abbott and Minnie Streets on the site of the present Bishop's House, was opened on 10 January 1886. In 1887, the year in which the Pro-Vicariate of North Queensland was constituted the Vicariate Apostolic of Cooktown, a timber presbytery was erected in Abbott Street, adjacent to St Monica's Church. In 1906, the Vicar Apostolic of Cooktown moved his residence to Cairns, which had eclipsed Cooktown as the principal port of far north Queensland, and St Monica's Church became a pro-cathedral.
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