List of monasteries in Australia
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The following is an incomplete list of monastic houses in Australia, with some sections of the list including New Zealand.
Male religious orders
- Tarrawarra Abbey, Victoria, Australia, a Trappist monastery founded from Ireland in 1954. Since 1998 Tarrawarra has had a daughter house in Kerala, India: Kurisumala Ashram.[1]
- Benedictine Abbey, New Norcia, Western Australia
- Monastery of Saint Benedict, Arcadia, New South Wales.[2]
- Southern Star Abbey, New Zealand. Southern Star is a Trappist monastery.
- Blessed Sacrament Fathers in Sydney and Melbourne.[3]
- Notre Dame Priory. A traditional Benedictine monastery established in 2017 in Colebrook, Tasmania.
- Pauline Fathers. Marian Valley, Queensland and Penrose Park, New South Wales.
- Saint Charbel's Monastery, Antonin Maronite Order. Coburg, Victoria[4]
- Saint Charbel's Monastery, Lebanese Maronite Order. Punchbowl New South Wales[4]
- Saint John the Beloved's Monastery, Lebanese Maronite Missionaries. Mt. Druitt, New South Wales[4]
- St John Paul II Monastery, Maronite Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Ryde, New South Wales
- Passionist Monastery, Parkside, South Australia.[5]
Female religious orders
- Benedictine Abbey, Jamberoo, New South Wales.[6] This community of Benedictine Nuns has had a continuing presence in NSW since 1848.
- Benedictine Monastery of the Transfiguration, Tanby, Yeppoon, Queensland.[7]
- Sisters of the Good Samaritan of the Order of St Benedict
- The Discalced Carmelites have monasteries for women in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Brisbane,[8] and the New Zealand city of Christchurch.[9]
- The Poor Clares have a number of monasteries for women in Sydney. The Order of Saint Clare has monasteries in Waverley and Riverstone: see . A separate congregation of Poor Clares has a monastery in Campbelltown, named Bethlehem Monastery
- Tyburn Nuns, convents located in Riverstone, NSW, Australia and Bombay, New Zealand
- Maronite College of the Holy Family and Convent, Maronite Sisters of the Holy Family. Harris Park NSW
- St Maroun's College and Convent, Maronite Sisters of the Holy Family, in Dulwich Hill, New South Wales
- Maronite Sisters of the Holy Family Nursing Village and Convent, Maronite Sisters of the Holy Family in Dulwich Hill NSW
- Maronite Antonine Sisters College and Convent, Maronite Antonine Sisters in East Coburg VIC
- St Paul's Community, Maronite Antonine Sisters. Thornbury VIC
- Brigidine Southern Cross Community, Brigidine Sisters. Malvern Victoria
A more complete list of Catholic religious orders in Australia can be found here:
See Catholic religious orders for a list of non-monastic and monastic Catholic institutes.