Contact with the Arrernte by the missionaries in the centre was made by the Luthern, Baptists, Methodists, Church of England, Presbyterian Church, Anglican and the Catholic Church. Father James Long MSC was the first Catholic Parish Priest to arrive and was succeeded by Father Patrick Maloney, MSC who concentrated on establishing a mission for Aboriginal people around Alice Springs. Along with Brother Ed Bennett and Frank McGarry he worked at their first base being Charles Creek and later established Santa Teresa the ‘little flower mission’ now known as Ltyentye Apurte.

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