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Welcome to the Benedict XVI Centre

About Us

The Benedict XVI Retreat Centre is a purpose built retreat centre for schools and parishes, agencies, religious orders, communities and movements and other groups. It was established by the Archdiocese of Sydney as a facility to support an expanded retreat program throughout the Archdiocese.

The Catholic Education Office Sydney joined the Archdiocese in the redevelopment of the Centre with a view to accommodating the retreat and activity needs of all the systemic schools within the Archdiocese of Sydney and beyond.

The Centre provides wonderful new facilities to support the pastoral goals of both the Archdiocese and the CEO, Sydney, in particular encouraging the practice of retreat as a way of augmenting existing programs of faith formation. The BXVI Centre is open to all and the facilities will have broad appeal to a wide variety of groups looking for a peaceful venue for a weekend, a few days or longer.

Free Wi-Fi available throughout the Centre

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Location

By car/coach

The Centre is approximately 70 minutes from Sydney’s CBD, 50 minutes from Parramatta CBD and 1hr 30 minutes from Wollongong CBD.

The BXVI Retreat Centre is very easy to find:

Take any Motorway road (M5, M4 or M2) until you reach the M7 motorway.

Take the M7 exit at Richmond Road and follow the signs to North Richmond

After travelling 22 kilometres on Richmond Road through North Richmond,
turn left into Grose Vale Road at the traffic lights at the end of the North Richmond Shopping Centre.

Follow this road for 6 kilometres, turning left at the Lucky 7 Service Station into Grose Wold Road.

Once on Grose Wold Road, you will see the BXVI Retreat Centre is clearly signposted on your right,
350 metres from the turn off. Look out for the Benedict XVI Retreat Centre sign.

By rail and bus

The nearest train station to the Centre is Richmond, which is on the T1 North Shore, Northern and Western Line. Trains (all stops) take
approximately 90 minutes from the City to Richmond.

It is approximately 10 kms from Richmond station to the Centre, guests will need to arrange their own transport.

‘Westbus’ route 680 travels along Grose Vale Road from East Market Street, opposite Richmond Station. The bus will stop at the Lucky 7
Service Station at the corner of Grose Vale and Grose Wold Roads, where a small walk will finish your journey to BXVI.

Thank you to your awesome retreat centre team for looking after all of us so well during our retreat. Everyone had a great time and enjoyed it immensely. We couldn’t have asked for anything more!

Beautiful chapel and surrounds, professional chefs, friendly and helpful staff. The environment and overall general atmosphere of the retreat centre is very conducive to reflection and private prayer.