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The Association began in 1975 as a result of
a request from the Australian Episcopal Conference. Those involved
in teaching theology in the four cities of Sydney, Brisbane,
Melbourne and Adelaide were invited to a preliminary meeting.
Fifteen attended the meeting and another twelve indicated an
interest in forming an association. The meeting resolved to do that
and gathered names of others who might be interested. This meeting
elected as President C. Geraghty, as Vice-President D. Coffey, as
Secretary J. Cowburn, and that committee set about the task of
drawing up a constitution which was presented to the first annual
meeting. That meeting was also held in Sydney in August 1975 and
took up some considerations of the dogmatic context of the Lex
Ecclesiae Fundamentalis of the then yet to be published New Code of
Canon Law.
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