St Paul's College, Manly
| St Paul's Catholic College | |
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| Location | |
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Manly, New South Wales Australia 
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| Information | |
| Type | Private, Boys Secondary, Day school |
| Motto |
Latin: Prima Primum (First Things First) |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic, Christian Brothers |
| Established | 1929 |
| Founder | Br Terence Nereus Bourke, CFC |
| Principal | Mr Chris Browne |
| Enrolment | 700 |
| Colour(s) | red and black |
| Slogan | Turning Manly boys into manly men |
| Website | http://www.stpaulsmanly.nsw.edu.au |
St. Paul's Catholic College (formerly named Christian Brothers College) is a Roman Catholic boys' secondary school of the Diocese of Broken Bay. The College was founded by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in 1929, and since 1982 has been conducted by lay staff appointed by diocesan authorities.
As a regional secondary school, St Paul's provides for the boys of the Catholic Parishes of Manly Freshwater (Curl Curl, Fairlight, Freshwater, Manly), North Harbour (Allambie, Balgowlah, Clontarf, Manly Vale, Seaforth), and Warringah (Beacon Hill, Brookvale, Cromer, Dee Why, Narraweena).
St Paul's College owes its origins to Monsignor John McDonald, Parish Priest of Manly. In 1924 Monsignor McDonald made a request for Christian Brothers to open and run a school for boys on the northern beaches. The Brothers were renown throughout the British Isles and Empire for providing a good education in the Catholic tradition for boys from poor families. "No boy," they had long said, "would be excluded from the school because of the inability or unwillingness of his parents or guardians to pay school fees." The Congregation responded by sending four Brothers: T.N. Bourke, P.B. Costello, H.F. Gygar, and T.P. O'Connor, who established their monastery and school in Manly, next to the Parish Church in Raglan Street. Christian Brothers' Manly opened on 29 January 1929 and welcomed 123 students, a great undertaking for four Brothers.
The school doubled in size in just four years, with 250 boys enrolled in 1933. The Second World War was the catalyst for the establishment of the Cadet Corps, which was later disbanded in 1962. Other long-standing features of school life included football, cricket, swimming, athletics, boxing, wrestling tournaments, and annual dramatic and musical concerts. The boys' choirs sang for Sunday Mass and afternoon Benediction at Mary Immaculate Church, Manly.
The Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal Gilroy, moved the College in 1965 from Raglan Street to its present site on Manly's Eastern Hill, in the grounds of St Patrick's Estate. The new College buildings cost 125,000 pounds. These were added to in the 1970s, and included science laboratories paid for by the Commonwealth Government, which represented some of the first public funding of private schools. The Cardinal's Palace, on the same land as the College, hosted Year 12 classes in the dining room; since 2005 the Cardinal's Palace has been wholly used by the College for its administration, leadership, and staff centre. To these buildings, the splendid Waterford Centre was opened in 2015, boasting both spectacular views of Sydney's Middle Harbour and a large multi-purpose space for sport and assembly.
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