- Mount Lilydale Mercy College
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Mount Lilydale Mercy College Location Lilydale, Victoria, Australia Coordinates 37°45′00″S 145°21′30″E / 37.7501°S 145.3583°ECoordinates: 37°45′00″S 145°21′30″E / 37.7501°S 145.3583°E Information Type Catholic Secondary School Motto Omnia Cum Deo
(All with God)Established 1869 Founder Sisters of Mercy Principal Bernard Dobson Campus Director Carolyn Ellul, Peter Molinari, Lucia Tabachiera, Brian Hawthorne Teaching staff ~112 Grades 7-12 Co-Education Number of students ~1,600 Campus McAuley, Barack Houses Ryan, Frayne, Maguire, Terry Dunn, O'Neill, Carr Colour(s) Blue, Gold Yearbook Coolock Website www.mlmclilydale.catholic.edu.au Centennial Hall at Mount Lilydale Mercy College Mount Lilydale Mercy College (commonly known as Mount Lilydale or MLMC) is a Catholic co-educational College in Lilydale, Victoria, Australia which caters for the need of approximately 1500 students from the Yarra Valley and outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne. The school was conducted by the Sisters of Mercy since 1896.
History
In June 1881, the Convent at Mansfield was established - descended from Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary. From that foundation, a branch-house was opened at Lilydale in 1888. Lilydale, a struggling rural area, was chosen by Archbishop Carr as Mansfield’s first convent offshoot. When the Sisters arrived in January, 1896, neither convent nor school had been prepared for them, but the local Parish Priest vacated his presbytery and, for the first four months, school was carried on in the basement of that building. It then moved into the presbytery itself for nine years. In 1975, Mount Lilydale became a co-educational school after serving as a school for young ladies since its foundation.
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Members of the Eastern Independent Schools of Melbourne Alphington Grammar | Aquinas | Bialik | Billanook | Donvale | Emmaus | Huntingtower | King David | Kingswood | Knox | Lilydale Adventist | Luther | Mount Lilydale | Mt Scopus | Nunawading Christian | Oakleigh Greek Orthodox | Plenty Valley | Melbourne Rudolf Steiner | St Joseph’s | Tintern Schools
Categories:- Roman Catholic schools in Australia
- Private schools in Victoria (Australia)
- High schools in Victoria (Australia)
- Educational institutions established in 1896
- Eastern Independent Schools of Melbourne
- Sisters of Mercy
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