 In 1888, at the request of Bishop James Moore of Ballarat six Irish Sisters of Nazareth left Tilbury on the "S.S. Ormuz" for Melbourne, Australia, where they found hospitality with the Good Shepherd Sisters before moving on to Ballarat.Sisters from Hammersmith arrived in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1905.In 1924, Archbishop John Joseph Cantwell invited the Sisters of Nazareth to California, where they founded the first Nazareth House in the United States, in San Diego.