Oratory community destined for Brisbane Brisbane's Catholic Archbishop Mark Coleridge. AUSTRALIA is to have its own version of a London religious landmark -- the Brompton Oratory Catholic Church in Knightsbridge. Brisbane's Catholic Archbishop, Mark Coleridge, has scored a coup, with an Oratorian congregation to be established in the city in 2015 or 2016. Oratorians are communities of priests founded by Italian Saint Philip Neri in the 16th century, and they counted Oxford scholar John Henry Newman in their ranks in the 19th century. They are famous for traditional "bells and smells" liturgies -- including some Latin masses, choirs, decorative churches, high-quality schools with rigorous teaching and adult education programs. The Oratory will further boost the turnaround of the church in Brisbane, where the Queensland seminary has reached its capacity of 32 students and there are plans to transform the post-modern interior of St Stephen's Cathedral along more traditional lines. Brisbane parish priest Paul Chandler, a former teacher, will be one of four founding members of the Australian Oratory. He will be joined by two senior priests from NSW and Victoria and eventually by the group's first seminarian, Shawn Murphy, 23, who left Melbourne last month to begin his studies for the priesthood at the Oratorians' seminary in Toronto. Mr Murphy, who graduated with an arts degree in literature and journalism from Monash University last year, was inspired to join the fledgling congregation after five years worshipping at St Aloysius, Caulfield, a traditional Latin mass community that has produced five vocations in 10 years. "I was especially drawn to the Oratorians' tradition of priestly holiness, charity, frequent preaching and forming young people in the faith," he said. It is exciting to be part of a new congregation from the start. Father Chandler will leave his parish of Banyo-Nundah at the end of this year to complete his PhD in John Paul II's theology of the body before helping establish the Oratory. He said several Australians dioceses had been interested in providing a base for the Australian oratory but "Archbishop Coleridge got in first." The location of the Brisbane Oratory is still being decided, but the city has several disused churches with vacant surrounding buildings close to the CBD. More than 500 Oratorian priests live in 70 congregations around the world, including 12 in the US and four in Britain, with headquarters in Rome.