* September 2 2008 - Father Brian Joseph Spillane is charged with a further 60 offences relating to eight additional victims bringing the total to 13 alleged victims and 93 sexual assault charges.

* September 3 2008 - Police swoop in Sydney, Armidale and Brisbane arresting former staff of St Stanislaus’ and All Saints Colleges.

As a result:

Former bursar of St Stanislaus’ College Brother John Gaven, 66 was charged with 28 sexual assault offences dating back to the 1970s and 1980s.

Former president of St Stanislaus’ College Father Peter Dwyer, 65 was charged with four offences alleged to have occurred at the college in 1987 and 1988.

Former All Saints College lay teacher Anthony Bruce William Spencer, 63, was charged with three counts of indecent assault relating to offences which allegedly occurred at the school in 1973.

* September 15 2008 - Father Brian Joseph Spillane, Brother John Gaven and Father Peter Dwyer all plead not guilty to a total of 125 charges in various NSW courts including Bathurst.

* December 15 2008 - Former St Stanislaus’ College assistant dorm master Rick McPhillamy, 47 is charged with two counts of indecent assault involving one student in 1985.

* December 16 2008 - Former director of discipline at St Stanislaus’ College Father Philip Robson, 60 is charged with five child sexual offences including aggravated sexual assault and indecent assault. His solicitor Greg Walsh said Robson emphatically denied any wrongdoing and would be contesting the charges.

* December 19 2008 - The number of charges faced by Father Brian Joseph Spillane rises to 117 including four counts of indecently assaulting two young girls in Marsfield in 1979 and 1980. Spillane also had 20 charges against him dropped but most were substituted with new charges relating to the same alleged incidents.

* March 30 2009 - Former All Saints College geography and history teacher Anthony Bruce William Spencer, 63, of Russell Island Queensland confirms a guilty plea for three charges dating back to the 1970s. A victims’ impact statement is presented to the court. Spencer pleaded guilty to two acts of indecency and one act of inciting a 14-year-old pupil to commit acts of indecency with another male.

* April 30 2009 - Anthony Bruce William Spencer, 63, is sentenced in Bathurst Local Court to 12 months in gaol with a nine month non-parole period.

* May 5 2009 - Kevin Phillips, 58, appears in Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court after being charged with attempted homosexual intercourse of a student by a teacher, a gross act of indecency and supplying cannabis. The charges are alleged to have occurred at St Stanislaus’ in 1990 when Phillips worked for a few months as a priest, sport coach and part-time teacher. His lawyer Greg Walsh said he will plead not guilty and would be vigorously defending himself.

* May 26 2009 - James Patrick Jennings, 76, of Wattle Grove South of Hobart was arrested and charged with four counts of indecent assault on a male. The charges relate to alleged offences against two former Catholic school students dating back to the 1960s.

* June 15 2009 - Richard John McPhillamy, 48, pleads not guilty to 11 charges including one of having had sex with a 13-year-old boy at St Stanislaus’ College between October and December 1985.

* June 23 2009 - Father Hugh Edward Murray, 79, is arrested and charged with five counts of indecent assault on a male. The charges related to three students at St Stanislaus’ College between 1966 and 1978.

* June 25 2009 - Father Hugh Edward Murray fails to appear before Downing Centre Local Court due to illness. The case is adjourned until August.

The majority of matters before the court will continue to be listed in Sydney following former Bathurst Local Court Magistrate Thomas Hodgson’s self-disqualification at the insistence of Director of Public Prosecutions lawyer Beth Walker.