Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p St Patrick's Seminary, Manly was the primary seminary of the Australian Catholic Church from its foundation in 1889 to its move in 1995. It has since moved to Strathfield where the teaching institute has become distinct from the seminary. The Catholic Institute of Sydney is now the ecclesiastical theology faculty. The Seminary of the Good Shepherd is the house of formation. Conceived by Archbishop Vaughan, it was built from 1885 in Perpendicular Gothic style by Sheerin and Hennessy on a spectacular site overlooking the Pacific Ocean on a hill above Manly, New South Wales. It opened in 1889.An early student was Patrick Joseph Hartigan, author of the "John O'Brien" poems on Australian Catholic rural life. Two of the first novels of former student Thomas Keneally, The Place at Whitton (1964) and Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968) are set in a fictionalized version of the seminary.The seminary building closed in 1995, and the seminary was renamed, when numbers of seminarians no longer justified the large building and shifts in ecclesiological thinking mandated a move to the geographical centre of the Greater Sydney Area.The building is now occupied by the International College of Management, Sydney, however the Cardinal Cerretti Chapel is still regularly used for weddings, most notably that of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban in 2006.The building appears as the exterior of Gatsby's mansion in the 2013 movie, The Great Gatsby.. }
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- St_Patrick's_Seminary abstract "St Patrick's Seminary, Manly was the primary seminary of the Australian Catholic Church from its foundation in 1889 to its move in 1995. It has since moved to Strathfield where the teaching institute has become distinct from the seminary. The Catholic Institute of Sydney is now the ecclesiastical theology faculty. The Seminary of the Good Shepherd is the house of formation. Conceived by Archbishop Vaughan, it was built from 1885 in Perpendicular Gothic style by Sheerin and Hennessy on a spectacular site overlooking the Pacific Ocean on a hill above Manly, New South Wales. It opened in 1889.An early student was Patrick Joseph Hartigan, author of the "John O'Brien" poems on Australian Catholic rural life. Two of the first novels of former student Thomas Keneally, The Place at Whitton (1964) and Three Cheers for the Paraclete (1968) are set in a fictionalized version of the seminary.The seminary building closed in 1995, and the seminary was renamed, when numbers of seminarians no longer justified the large building and shifts in ecclesiological thinking mandated a move to the geographical centre of the Greater Sydney Area.The building is now occupied by the International College of Management, Sydney, however the Cardinal Cerretti Chapel is still regularly used for weddings, most notably that of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban in 2006.The building appears as the exterior of Gatsby's mansion in the 2013 movie, The Great Gatsby.".