In 1854, Father Ward established Australia's first conference of the St Vincent de Paul Society in Melbourne. Immediately the St Vincent de Paul Orphanage, Prahran was opened to care for Catholic orphans. This was quickly followed with the building of St Vincent de Paul Orphanage on Emerald Hill. The conference lapsed upon the death of Father Ward in 1858 but work continued under the auspices of the St Vincent de Paul Society in Victoria, until it was formally reformed in 1885.
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