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=**Father Bede Polding**=
 * Father Bede Polding, a catholic archbishop, was born on the 18th of november 1794 at Liverpool, England. His father was Dutch and his mother came from the Brewer family.**
 * His parents sadly died and at 8 he was placed in the protected care of his uncle and Father Bede Brewer. At 11 Gregory's Bendectine College, at Action Burnell. On 15 July 1810 Polding was admitted to the religous community, proudly taking the name of Bede.**
 * He received minor orders in 1813 from Bishop Milner, was ordained priest by Bishop Poynter at Old Hall College on 4 March 1819, and on the 21st sang his first mass at Downside.**


 * By Papal Briefs in 1834 Polding was appointed bishop of Hiero-Caesarea in He had declined earlier appointments for Mauritius and Madras but he accepted the Australian office on 14 June.**
 * Two weeks later in his private** **chapel Bishop Bramston, the vicar-apostolic of London conserctrated polding.**
 * On 6 August Polding and his party arrived at Hobart Town, where he left a priest and a student.**
 * He was now in middle age and had come from the upper ranks of English Catholic society. He belonged to an ancient order lately re-established in England after centuries of banishment but still uncertain of its role in English society.**
 * Though he did not owe his position to the British government, he had its approval and was paid from public funds.**