Iona College in Queensland (Australia) Co-Founded by a Patrician Rev Fr Long OMI
PATRICIANS OF JAFFNA - AUSTRALIA Iona College in Queensland (Australia) co-founded by a Patrician Rev Fr Long OMI By Timothy Arulanandam, Vice President of Patricians of Jaffna Rev Fr Charles Matthews and Rev Fr Timothy Long and others, shaped our St. Patrick’s College to its peak, during the time I was a student there. At this school my father had the opportunity to serve these two giants for just over 22 years as a Clerk in the College. As a token gratitude, my father named my late brother Dr. Antony ‘Charles’ Arulanandam after Rev. Fr. Charles Matthews and I was named ‘Timothy’, after Rev Fr Timothy Long. Rev Fr Long, after serving St Patrick’s College for over 36 years moved to Australia in 1958 and was instrumental in establishing Iona College in Brisbane (Queensland, Australia) in that year itself. It is noteworthy that the entire family of Rev. Fr. Long is dedicated to the service of God and that all his three brothers became priests and his sister became a nun. After I migrated to Australia in 1985, my late brother Dr. Antony told me the glory of Iona College that was founded by Rev Fr Long. I was interested in learning more details of the College. The more I learned about IONA, the more I became fascinated about this College, especially when I learned our own Rector “ Fr. Long of Jaffna’ was instrumental in starting this new school called IONA in Lindum, Brisbane, Australia. This school was established 1958 ,with only 56 students and 4 staff members and within a very short time, it has now grown big to accommodate some 1500 students, with facilities and services, that would only match some of the world’s best schools.
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