2025 Statistics
Margaret Hogan has compiled the information recorded in the 2025 Visitors' Book. Below is a summary of the many encounters the Guides and Welcomers had in 2025. We would like to thank the G&Ws who included annotations with the record of visitors. Thank you to Margaret for all her work to put these figures together.
Australian Visitors: 1388
Queensland 913
New South Wales 181
Victoria 176
South Australia 44
ACT 30
Western Australia 29
Northern Territory 10
Tasmania 5
Australian Visitors: 1388
Queensland 913
New South Wales 181
Victoria 176
South Australia 44
ACT 30
Western Australia 29
Northern Territory 10
Tasmania 5
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Overseas Visitors: 2452
Special Notes
2025 Jubilee Year: Parish Pilgrimages eg. New Farm, Coomera, etc: questions about the Jubilee Year and Holy Door.
2025: Retirement of Archbishop Coleridge and Installation of Archbishop Shane Mackinlay: questions about mass times, seating etc.
2025: EONARIUAM {light show}: questions about bookings, how long the boxes were to stay in the Cathedral
External Tours: {Private, not booked with Guides and Welcomers}: Brisbane Greeters, Urban Tours, Language Schools, Special Tour Groups with their own Interpreter, Gregory Terrace 5 classes with teachers visiting the Chapel to trace the school history, Sr Kari Webb with Ursuline Group, Gerry Crooks (Pastoral Assistant) with Angelorum students, special interest groups eg photography, architecture, book club (Mayne Inheritance).
Events: funerals (9) and graduation masses: G&Ws explaining changes to Mass times, Reconciliation, Benediction etc.
Enquiries: Mass, Reconciliation and Benediction times, holy water, blessing of items, book shop, baptisms and weddings, RCIA, YAM, St V de Paul, concerts (Lent, Advent, Candlelight), Cathedral Calendars etc. Students from secondary colleges visiting the Holocaust Museum often wander into the Cathedral and Chapel and G&Ws answer questions, short tours.
Note: G&Ws often write short sentences about the encounters eg. Memories of weddings, baptisms, funerals and other family associations with the Cathedral and St Stephen’s School.
2025 Jubilee Year: Parish Pilgrimages eg. New Farm, Coomera, etc: questions about the Jubilee Year and Holy Door.
2025: Retirement of Archbishop Coleridge and Installation of Archbishop Shane Mackinlay: questions about mass times, seating etc.
2025: EONARIUAM {light show}: questions about bookings, how long the boxes were to stay in the Cathedral
External Tours: {Private, not booked with Guides and Welcomers}: Brisbane Greeters, Urban Tours, Language Schools, Special Tour Groups with their own Interpreter, Gregory Terrace 5 classes with teachers visiting the Chapel to trace the school history, Sr Kari Webb with Ursuline Group, Gerry Crooks (Pastoral Assistant) with Angelorum students, special interest groups eg photography, architecture, book club (Mayne Inheritance).
Events: funerals (9) and graduation masses: G&Ws explaining changes to Mass times, Reconciliation, Benediction etc.
Enquiries: Mass, Reconciliation and Benediction times, holy water, blessing of items, book shop, baptisms and weddings, RCIA, YAM, St V de Paul, concerts (Lent, Advent, Candlelight), Cathedral Calendars etc. Students from secondary colleges visiting the Holocaust Museum often wander into the Cathedral and Chapel and G&Ws answer questions, short tours.
Note: G&Ws often write short sentences about the encounters eg. Memories of weddings, baptisms, funerals and other family associations with the Cathedral and St Stephen’s School.
