AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionI. Conflict and Ultramontanism in Colonial Catholic AustraliaII. The Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide and its Australian Dependency in the Nineteenth CenturyIII. The Roman Rise of John Bede Polding, 1834-1843IV. An Horizon of Troubles, 1843-1852V. Ecclesiastical Civil War in the Swan River Colony, 1843-1853VI. The Benedictine Nightmare, 1851-1860VII. The Exile of Abbot Henry Gregory Gregory, 1859-1877VIII.
Bishop James Alipius Goold of Melbourne and his Critics, 1856-1864IX. Division of the Archdiocese of Sydney, 1858-1865X. Archbishop Polding's last Visit to Rome, 1865-67XI. Destruction of the Titular Bishop-elect of Bethsaida in partibus infidelium , 1866-1868XII. Bishop James Quinn Imperilled and Rescued, 1861-1870XIII. The Agony of Archbishop Polding, 1867-1874XIV. Division of the Diocese of Melbourne, 1856-1874XV. Quest for a Successor: The Triumph of Archbishop Polding, 1842-1874XVI.
End of an Era, 1874XVII. The Ordeal of Bishop Timothy O'Mahony, 1871-1879XVIII. Battle for Queensland, 1870-1883XIX. The Succession of Archbishop Patrick Moran, 1882-1884ConclusionBibliographyIndex.