St John's College, University of Sydney

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name = St John's College
university = University of Sydney
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full_name = The College of St John the Evangelist
motto_Latin = Nisi Dominus Frustra
motto_English = Unless the Lord is with us, our labor is vain
named_for = St John the Evangelist - author of the fourth Gospel
previous_names = The College of St John the Evangelist
established = 1858
sister_college = -
head_name = Rector
head = Dr David Daintree
location = [http://db.auth.usyd.edu.au/directories/map/largemap00a.html University of Sydney, H2
8A Missenden Road, Camperdown NSW, 2050]
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undergraduates = 173
graduates = 12
students = 185
homepage = [http://www.stjohnscollege.edu.au/ Homepage] | boat_club = [http://alumni.stjohnscollege.edu.au// Alumni Homepage]
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thumb|250px|St_Johnhttp://www.virtualtour.com.au/melocco/st_johns/VT/index.html Virtual Tour of St John's College] ] St John's College, or the College of St John the Evangelist, is a residential College within the University of Sydney.

Established in 1857, the College of St John the Evangelist is the oldest Roman Catholic university college and second-oldest university college in Australia, and is one of the country's most prestigious. St John's is a co-educational community of 185 undergraduate and postgraduate students. The Rector Dr David Daintree has governed the College since 2002.

History

The College of St John the Evangelist was founded by Archbishop John Bede Polding, who named it after the author of the fourth Gospel. The symbol of the College is the traditional symbol of St John, the eagle, denoting a high-flying perspective on the world. St John's College is the oldest Catholic tertiary institution in Australia. It was the first Catholic college to be established in a pre-existing non-Catholic university in the English-speaking world since the Reformation. In 1854 the first effort to establish a Catholic college within The University of Sydney was made at a meeting in the old St Mary's Cathedral. The NSW Government promised a pound for pound subsidy of up to a 20,000-pound limit if at least 10,000 pounds was raised by public subscription. Remarkably this was met in six months from July 1857. On December 15, 1857 the Act to Incorporate Saint John’s College as a College within the University of Sydney was passed in the NSW Parliament and received Royal Assent from Queen Victoria. The Proclamation of the St. John's College Council took place on July 1, 1858. ["St John's College - History", http://www.stjohnscollege.edu.au/history.html, viewed 2007. ]

In 1887, James Francis Hogan wrote in "The Irish in Australia", that St Ignatius' College, Riverview, St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill and:St. John's College, affiliated to the University of Sydney...are three educational institutions that reflect the highest credit on the Catholic population of the parent colony. [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500661.txt "The Irish in Australia"] — by James Francis Hogan, 1887. Reproduced by Project Gutenberg (retrieved 15 June 2006).]

The work of Wardell and Blackett

In February 1859 William Wilkinson Wardell the architect of St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney and St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, was appointed architect for St John's College. Working from Melbourne he drew up the general plans and sent them to Sydney in May 1859. Wardell designed St John's College as a three-storeyed sandstone Gothic Revival building on an H-shaped plan but because of budget restrictions with a limit of 30,000 pounds, July and August saw discussion of Wardell's design and of how much could be built within the budget. In September and October the general plans were approved by the St John's Council and the University Senate. During the period from October 1859 to April 1860 relations between Wardell and the Council deteriorated for various reasons, ultimately ending with Wardell's resignation in June 1860. With the main building programme already in progress the Council retained Wardell's plans and proceeded with the construction under the supervision of Edmund T. Blacket, another of Australia's best known colonial architects who had finished construction of the first stage of St Paul's College at the University of Sydney the previous year. When Blacket was appointed to supervise the construction of St John's several changes were made to Wardell's specification being the substitution of Australian Hardwood for Pitch Pine, the use of bar trusses in the Chapel, omission of a fountain, use of common bricks instead of fire bricks, substitution of Colonial for Portland stone and the use of ornamental pillars in the library. Blacket estimated that these and other changes would occasion a saving of 1,689 pounds, thus leaving the amended quote at 35,754 pounds. When the College was finally occupied the cost of construction for the first stage was in fact 40,000 pounds. ["St John's College - Architecture", http://www.stjohnscollege.edu.au/architecture.html, viewed 2007. ]

English Benedictine influence

St John's College was founded as a Benedictine Foundation by Archbishop of Sydney John Bede Polding formerly an English Benedictine monk of Downside Abbey. The English Benedictines were prominent in the raising of public support for the founding of St John's and Dom Maurus O'Connell, Dean of St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney and first Australian-born Benedictine priest, was appointed as the first Rector of the College in 1858. When Roger Bede Vaughan, a former Monk of Downside Abbey arrived in Sydney as Polding's Coadjutor bishop in 1873, he was elected by the Fellows as Rector. Vaughan retained the rectorship until he succeeded Polding as Archbishop in his own right, but continued to live in the College and use it as his Episcopal Palace. Vaughan's secretary Dr Anselm Gillett, a monk of Ampleforth who had been resident at Belmont Priory during Vaughan's time as superior before his departure for Australia, acted as Rector during Vaughan's time as Archbishop. After Vaughan's death and Gillett's return to England, another Benedictine, David Barry was appointed Rector in 1884. In the latter part of the nineteenth century the College Council was dominated by clerical fellows who were Benedictine monks and the majority of it students were educated at the Benedictine Lyndhurst College, Glebe. ["Sons of St Benedict: The English Benedictines and St John's College", Peter Cunich, 1987. ]

The carved Gothic-style reliquary box held in the chapel contains the skull of St Bede the Lesser, a Benedictine Monk who died pre-1000 AD. The relic had been preserved in a reliquary in the church of St Benignus at Genoa, served by the Benedictine Monks of Monte Cassino until the early 1800s. The relic was transported to Sydney by the missionary priest Martial Mary and presented to Archbishop Vaughan whilst he was residing in the college.

Architecture

St John's College is perhaps the grandest Gothic Revival college in Australia and designed by one of England's (and Australia's) foremost ecclesiastical architects of the mid-nineteenth century is unique in New South Wales collegiate architecture in its combination of scale quality and construction. A rare realization of Pugin's ideal Catholic College (and in turn based on Magdalen College, Oxford), it demonstrates the influence of Pugin on the work of William Wardell. It is a splendid example of the period when Pugin's insistence of archaeological accuracy was giving way to the more eclectic influences of the High Victorian generation.

Built entirely in sandstone, the college is fourteenth century English Gothic in style and substantially Renaissance Baroque in plan, in the manner of Wardell's earlier monasteries and convents. The principal floor or 'piano nobile' level is elevated above the ground floor and is related to a central space (the Ante-chapel) by a series of classical enfilades. The arrangement of the ground floor entry vestibule, and the formal, axially linked Imperial staircase are just as much classical in inspiration. In this respect St John's is unlike the traditional layout of an English University College. The formal parts of the building are very grand, particularly if compared to the almost domestic scale of Blacket's contemporary St Paul's College.

The main facade on the north wing is a typical exercise in Victorian near symmetry with the central tower nearly in the middle. Under the tower is a "porte cochere". Continuing south along the visitor's line of entry on the main axis is a visually low, dark vestibule. This enhances the view, through an open arcade and transverse passage, of the more brightly sidelit formal stone staircase. To the north of the stairhall on the principal floor is the central space. To the east of this space is the chapel, viewed through an arcaded screen. To the south is a vista across the stairwell, through an anti-room to the library and on to the students' accommodation. To the west is the Great Hall, although this was not visible from the central space on Wardell's original design. Lastly through a wide opening to the north is the lady Chapel in the tower.

The Chapel and Lady Chapel

The Chapel of St John's College, unusually located on the first floor, was completed in 1863 and is a space of five bays with a high wooden roof. The two bays at the east end are distinguished as a chancel by a change in floor level. The eastern half of the chapel is in the traditional collegiate Choir arrangement. The details of the tracery and mouldings are late thirteenth and early fourteenth century English Gothic. There is a small gallery over the chapel originally designed to enable invalids from the infirmary to hear Mass.

Many of the sanctuary furnishings are believed to have been designed by Blackett in the 1860s including the Blessed Sacrament Shrine, which is made of Bondi Gold Sandstone, the tabernacle, cedar choir stalls and pews. The walls of keyed sandstone were originally covered in plasterwork with Pugin type decoration but this was completely removed in 1963. The chapel wrought iron gates were designed by Herbert Wardell and Denning and installed in 1921. The chapel contains five stain glassed windows, three of which were commissioned in 1918 from John Hardman and Co Birmingham, with the designed based on the writings of St Bonaventure, quoted by Cardinal Newman. The eastern window, also from Hardman and Co was presented to the College by Countess Freehill in 1937 in memory of her late husband Francis Bede Freehill. The embellished Sanctuary and Lady Chapel mosaics were also presented by Countess Freehill and laid by Melocco Co in 1916-17 and 1937 respectively (approximately the same time as the Kelly Chapel floor at St Mary's Cathedral). The sanctuary features oak reredos and panelling designed by Herbert Wardell and also two life sized carved statues of Our Lady and St John the Evangelist made by Koffmefer of Munich.

The Great Hall

The Great Hall or Dining Hall is an impressive space with massive wooden roof of collar beam and arched braces, with king post and with raking queen post. Each truss is visually supported by short stone shafts with foliate capitals and corbels in the early fourteenth century manner, as is the tracery. The formal entry stairs to the south have never been built and the original eastern wall has been replaced by an open arcade. On the western wall of the Great Hall is the Purcell Window completed in 1930 by Hardman and Co, Birmingham. The upper windows contain the coats of arms of the Universities of Sydney, Oxford (trefoils), Cambridge (trefoils) and Paris (left soufflet) and St John's College (right soufflet). The Great Hall has on display a fine collection of Portraits of past Visitors, Rectors, Fellows and students with the most significant portrait being "Archbishop Polding / Gallery oil painting of Archbishop Polding DSB" 1866 by Eugene Montegu Scott (1935-1909) which was originally commissioned for St Mary's Cathedral.

Brennan Hall and Library

The Brennan Hall is named after the notable Australian poet and classical scholar Christopher Brennan (1870-1932) who was a regular visitor and close friend of Rector Dr Maurice J. O'Reilly. The Brennan Hall has a fine double arcade of slender wooden piers. Each pier has four engaged shafts with appropriate bases and capitals supporting arched braces. All motifs are designed in fourteenth century manner like the reticulated tracery in the square loaded windows. The Brennan Hall is more grand than convenient as it is also a major thoroughfare.

The library holds several collections of books donated by past rectors and fellows of the college, contained in custom made locked shelving units as a private library for its historical relevance to the college. The stained glass windows on the eastern and western walls of the library are by Hardman and Co. Birmingham. The Eastern windows contain the coats of arms of Bishop Davis, Archbishop Polding, St John's College and Archbishop Vaughan. The western windows contain the coat of arms of William Bernard Ullathorne, Cardinal Moran and Archbishop Kelly.

Later developments (1918-present)

In 1918, Wardell's son, Herbert, working with his partner Denning, designed what is known as the '38 wing (it was eventually begun in 1938) estimating the cost at 14,000 pounds. Construction was not started for 20 years because of lack of funds and was finally finished on a reduced scale in 1939. In 1937 Countess Freehill donated 15,000 pounds to the College on the condition that it be used for the erection of the tower and that Hennessy and Hennessy be the architects. The design for the tower was 10 metres shorter than Wardell would have liked. Wardell believed that without the full height of the tower, the horizontality of the building would not be balanced. Nonetheless the tower was built to the amended design. The 1960s saw great activity with extensions to the College. In 1961, 100 years after the first construction, Menzies Wing on the east end of the South Range was begun. The architects were McDonell, Mar and Anderson. The Menzies Wing was opened by the R. J. Menzies C.H., Q.C., M.P. and blessed by N.T. Cardinal Gilroy on May 14, 1961. In 1962 the Refectory was extended through to where the sacristies were, leaving an open arcade where the eastern wall had been. The Polding Wing was built on the west end of the South Range in 1967 and opened by Sir Roden Cutler and blessed by HArchbishop James Caroll on November 26, 1967. Although these wings are four-storeyed and very different to the design of Wardell, the architects have looked back to his design for guidance and inspiration. Their modifications of Wardell's original design enabled the present building to accommodate 181 students.

Future developments

In May 2007 the St John's College 150th Anniversary Capital Appeal was launched with the aim of raising funds for new building works planned to commence in 2009. A new building that completes the dream of the architects of the 1800s William Wardell and Edmund Blackett, completing Wardell's quadrangle and Missenden Road Building, The Grand Staircase from the Great Hall, Blacket's cloisters and designed to accommodate over 70 more students. The recent land transaction between St John's and The University of Sydney will provide the balance of the funds needed. The Patron of the Capital Appeal is Mr Michael Hintze. [" The Word - St John's College Alumni Magazine 2007"]

tudent life

St John's College offers a traditional Oxbridge 'collegial' experience of University life and is situated on grounds within The University of Sydney Main Campus. ["St John's College - Handbook ", http://www.stjohnscollege.edu.au/handbook.html, viewed 2007. ]

Academic life

The College exists primarily as an academic community and it is justly proud of its reputation in this regard. Academic assistance is provided to scholars by the Academic Coordinator, assisted by a team of resident and non-resident tutors comprising senior and postgraduate scholars and university teaching staff and academics. The tutorial programme is comprehensive (over 50 subjects per week) designed to supplement the teaching programs provided by the university. St John's has a vibrant postgraduate community and students are valued for their academic seniority and community leadership.

Chapel

The St John's College chapel was completed in 1863 in the Gothic Revival style as part of the northern wing and longitudinal arm of the college. The Chapel is actively used as a place of worship and also for some weddings, concerts and other college events. Catholic Mass is celebrated in the College Chapel weekly on Sundays at 5:30pm during the academic year, and on other important liturgical occasions. Each Wednesday after Formal Dinner Night Prayer is held in the chapel. Adoration and Benediction is held regularly throughout the semester and during stu-vac. All students of the college are encouraged to worship as a community and it is kept open at all times for prayer and personal reflection.

Formal dinners

Formal Dinners are held at 6.30 pm on Mondays and Wednesdays throughout the academic year. Attendance is mandatory and all members of the College must wear an academic gown and dress appropriately - either Black Tie or Lounge Suit for men and ballgown or evening gown for women, depending on the event. Traditional formalities are observed. Students enter the Hall and stand in place prior to the arrival of the members of High Table - members of the Senior Common Room and other invited guests - who process in after The Gong has been sounded. Grace is then said in Latin. Late arrivals should bow to the Rector (or Visitor) and be acknowledged. It is considered discourteous to leave the Hall before the final Grace.

port

Sport is an important aspect of Collegial life. St John's College teams compete against the other Sydney Colleges in a wide range of sports for the Rawson Cup (men's sport) and the Rosebowl Cup (women's). The Rawson Cup was donated by Sir Harry Rawson in 1906, and is now affectionately known by many college men as "Harry". The Rawson sports are played throughout the university year, including: Cricket, Rowing, Rugby, Swimming and Diving, Soccer, Tennis, Basketball and Athletics. Other sports that feature in the Rosebowl Cup are Hockey, Netball and Softball. The college has expansive sporting facilities including a rugby oval, football oval, cricket nets and floodlit tennis and basketball courts. All college residents are also members of Sydney University Sport and are entitled to access to all exclusive member benefits and services, including 3 on-campus gymnasiums and indoor aquatic centre.

ocial and cultural

Major events each year include a College play, an informal and two black tie formal balls, and the intercollegiate debating competition. The Student Club also operates a bar, 'The Dail' in the area adjacent to the Junior Common Room.

Music and drama

The College Choir sings at Mass in the Chapel regularly and performs and also performs at other occasions. Concerts to showcase the musical talents of students are presented each year. Arts of Gold is a bi-annual event that showcases the artistic talents of St John's students to raise money for a selected charity. The College takes part in the Intercollegiate Debating Cup every year, competing with the other Colleges of the University of Sydney. Competition is of a high standard with many college teams consisting of University debaters.

The College competes in the Palladian Cup where the colleges compete in solo and group instrumental and drama performance. St John's won the Palladian Cup in 2007.

The College enjoys a close relationship with [http://www.capellasublima.com.au/ Capella Sublima] , a distinguished a capella vocal consort based at St John's College, where its singers rehearse. In the European Renaissance, a capella was a group of musicians attached to a cathedral or the court of a monarch. Capella sublima specialises in choral masterworks of the European Renaissance. Its extensive repertoire includes Josquin, Lassus, Palestrina, Victoria, Guerrero, Tallis and others. The Capella has been recorded for broadcast by ABC Classic FM and numerous other Sydney radio stations. ["Capella Sublima Website", http://www.capellasublima.com.au/, viewed 2007. ]

International students

Currently over ten per cent of St John's residents come from overseas. Students are represented from The United States, Greece, China, Hong Kong, Scotland, England, New Zealand, Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Governance

Government of the College is vested by the 1857 Act of Incorporation in the College Council, which consists of the Rector and eighteen Fellows, six of whom must be Catholic clergy. The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, currently George Cardinal Pell, takes the role of Visitor of the College. This is a largely ceremonial role and can also be called to give guidance and resolve internal disputes. Under the direction of the Archbishop as Visitor, the College associates itself with the interests of the Church and its mission, particularly by the fostering of appropriate academic directions in education, charity, social justice, ethics and the environment. ["An Act to Incorporate Saint John’s College as a College within the University of Sydney", Assented to December 15th 1857, http://www.stjohnscollege.edu.au/upload/St%20Johns%20College%20Act.doc, viewed 2007. ]

College Council

The College is governed by the College Council which consists of the Rector, Dr David Daintree BA, MLitt PhD, JP, (since September 2002) and 18 College fellows, 6 of whom must be members of the clergy. The current Chairman of the Council is John McDonald BEc and the Deputy Chair is Kerry Chikarovski BEc LLB.

Honorary Fellows

St John's College has a number of Honorary Fellows, distinguished members of the University and wider community, who have been selected to support the Rector by representing the interests of the College in their own spheres and by mentoring students

tudent Club

The Student Club is the body that looks after much of the day-to-day activity of the students of the College. Formed in 1891, the Students' Club is governed by its own constitution and is led by the House Committee. The House Committee is elected by the students at the end of each academic year. The activities of the Club are varied, ranging across social, cultural, sporting and disciplinary areas. The House Committee comprises the House President, House Secretary, House Treasurer and six committee members.

Distinguished alumni

Politics and Law

* Tony Abbott - former Federal Minister for Health and Ageing, current Shadow Minister of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Rhodes Scholar
* Joe Hockey - former Federal Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, and current Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing,
* Frank Sartor - current NSW Minister for Planning, Minister for Redfern Waterloo, Minister for the Arts, and former Lord Mayor of The City of Sydney ["St John's College Matriculation Book", viewed 2007]
* Justice Richard O'Connor - former member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, member of the Australian Senate and in the ministry of Edmund Barton, and founding Justice of the High Court of Australia ["Australian Dictionary of Biography Online", http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/adbonline.htm. ]
* Justice Sir Cyril Walsh KBE PC - former Justice of the High Court of Australia
* Justice Ian Harrison - current Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
* Justice Roderick Meagher AO QC LLD (Honoris Causa) (Syd) - legal scholar and former Justice of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of New South Wales
* Gregory Bartels - former NSW Liberal Party State Director and father of former politician and leader of the NSW Parliamentary Liberal Party, Kerry Chikarovski

Business

* David Higgins - CEO of the London 2012 Olympic Delivery Authority and former CEO of Lend Lease Corporation
* Michael Hintze KCSG - founder and CEO of asset managers [http://www.cqs.ch/ CQS Management] , former Managing Director of Leveraged Funds, and Convertibles and Equity Derivatives at Credit Suisse
* Daniel Gilbert AM - director of the National Australia Bank and founder and Managing Partner of [http://www.gtlaw.com.au/gt/site Gilbert and Tobin] Lawyers
* Jim L'Estrange - former managing director of Star City Casino and current CEO of NSW Rugby
* Trent Koch - Senior Manager [http://www.challenger.com.au/ Challenger Infrastructure Fund]
* [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040241b.htm/ Francis Bede Freehill] - a founder of the City Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd, director of the Australian Newspaper Co. Ltd and co-founder of the Catholic Press

Diplomacy

* Michael L'Estrange AO - current Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, former Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Rhodes Scholar
* John Kevin CBE - former Australian High Commissioner to Ceylon (Sri Lanka), High Commissioner to Pakistan and Ambassador to South Africa

Media

* Bill Peach AM - former ABC TV journalist
* Dean Yates - Bureau Chief of Reuters News Agency Baghdad
* Andrew Corrigan - wine connoisseur and writer and ABC Radio presenter

Academics

* Prof Paul Fagan FRCS - leading ENT surgeon (or otorhinolaryngologist ORL ). Conjoint Professor at the UNSW and St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney.
* Prof John Lynch - Epidemiology and Population Health
* Prof David John Harland - Challis Professor of Law at the University of Sydney
* Prof Thomas John Butler - Latin and first Australian born to hold Academic Chair
* Prof Peter Cunich - historian
* Prof James Franklin - historian, mathematician and philosopher

Medicine

* Sir Herbert Schlink KBE - surgeon, former Superintendent and Chairman of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and co-founder of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
* Sir John McKelvey KBE - surgeon, co-founder and former vice-president of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
* Dr Walter Burfitt CBE - surgeon and co-founder of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
* Sir Clive Wentworth Uhr KBE - radiologist
* Herbert Francis Benning OBE KSG - psychologist and academic

Religious Leaders

* John Steven Satterthwaite D.D BE - Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Lismore

port

* Luke Burgess - current NSW Waratahs and Wallaby Halfback.
* Matthew Carraro - current NSW Waratahs Centre
* Gareth Hardy - current Western Force Prop
* Daniel Vickerman - current Waratah and Wallaby
* Keith Gudsell - former Wallaby and All Black
* Jack Blomley - former Wallaby
* Jack Potts - former Wallaby
* Kevin O'Hara - former Wallaby

Rhodes Scholars ["Sydney Alumni Rhodes Scholars list", http://www.usyd.edu.au/alumni/about/rhodes.shtml, viewed 2007]

* Terence Glasheen
* Colin Hingston
* Michael L'Estrange
* Tony Abbott
* Anthony Dietz

Rectors ["Rectors of St John's College Honour Board", located in Brennan Hall, St John's College, viewed 2007]

* (1858-1860) Maurus O'Connell O.S.B.
* (1860-1874) Dr John Forrest D.D
* (1874-1877) Roger William Bede Vaughan O.S.B.
* (1877-1883) Dr Anselm Gillett O.S.B., D.D
* (1883-1884) Fr. Daniel Clancy S.J.
* (1884-1887) David Barry O.S.B.
* (1887-1888) Patrick Murphy
* (1888-1915) Dr James J. O'Brien D.D
* (1915-1933) Dr Maurice O'Reilly C.M., D.D
* (1933-1958) John Thompson C.M., BA (Hons) MA
* (1958-1958) William Cantwell C.M. "(acting)"
* (1958-1968) John Burnheim M.A. D.Phil.
* (1968-1969) Edmund Barry "(acting)"
* (1969-1977) Gregory Meere
* (1977-1980) Joseph Rheinberger
* (1980-1992) Lester Cashen OAM, BA MPs(Hons) PhC
* (1992-1994) Barry Tunks
* (1994-1995) Martin Milani "(acting)"
* (1995-2000) Marshal McMahon
* (2000-2000) Paul O'Donnell "(acting)"
* (2000-2000) Michael Connors
* (2001-2001 John Hill
* (2001-2002) Dr Colin Fowler O.P. "(acting)"
* (2002-present) Dr David Daintree K.H.S BA MLitt PhD

Visitors

* (1858-1877) John Bede Polding OSB
* (1877-1883) Roger Bede Vaughan OSB
* (1884-1911) Patrick Francis Cardinal Moran
* (1911-1940) Michael Kelly
* (1940-1971) Norman Thomas Cardinal Gilroy KBE
* (1971-1983) James Darcy Cardinal Freeman KBE
* (1983-2001) Edward Cardinal Clancy AC
* (2001-present) George Cardinal Pell AC

References

External links

* [http://www.stjohnscollege.edu.au/ St John's College Home Page]
* [http://alumni.stjohnscollege.edu.au// St John's College Alumni Home Page]
* [http://www.usyd.edu.au/ The University of Sydney Homepage]
* [http://www.usyd.edu.au/alumni/ The University of Sydney Alumni and Friends]
* [http://www.sydney.catholic.org.au/ Archdiocese of Sydney]
* [http://www.sydney.catholic.org.au/Archbishop/index.shtml/ The Visitor - George Cardinal Pell Homepage]
* [http://daintree.tassie.org/ The Rector - Dr David Daintree Homepage]
* [http://www.intercollege.com.au/// USYD Intercol Calendar]
* [http://www.susport.com//// Sydney University Sport]