The Catholic Church is sitting on $3.3 billion worth of property, the country's first truth-telling hearing has been told.

After an almost year-long legal battle with the Yoorrook Justice Commission, the Church's response was published on the truth-telling commission's website.

The estimate—which does not include the value of the land—revealed the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne owns 350 church sites over an area of just under 113 hectares.

The $3.278 billion reflects the insured value of 730 buildings across the archdiocese. Given the short time frame of the submission, the archdiocese said this figure "should not be construed as definitive or comprehensive".

It is understood that the value does not reflect the land value itself, but rather the replacement value. Some churches—including the state's oldest, St Francis—are not included as they are owned by a separate entity.

In the submission, the archdiocese also revealed: "It is not Archdiocesan policy to notify or consult with Traditional Owners in respect of Church or parish land.

"If this has been done in the past, it will have been an ad hoc initiative of the Archdiocese or parish likely linked to the characteristics of the land."

Most 19th-century churches were built on land provided by the colonial government for free.

Last year, representatives from the Catholic, Anglican, and Uniting churches appeared in front of the Commission, where they were questioned on the role they played in setting up Victorian missions and reserves where Aboriginal people were confined.

Tim O'Leary from the Catholic Church said he accepted the "Archdiocese had been the beneficiary of land and other supports from governments in the context of dispossession".

"The church has made sincere efforts to translate those benefits into services for both Catholic First Peoples and non-Catholic First Peoples," Mr O'Leary said.

Unlike the Uniting and Catholic, the Anglican Church was commended by the commissioners for its relative openness last May.

Appearing on behalf of the Church, Bishop Richard Treloar said missions - built at Lake Tyers and Lake Condah - were constructed on a premise that was "fundamentally flawed," being built on "stolen land" with a complete disregard for the rights of First Peoples.

"Our church partnered with the colonial government to implement policies and practices that were and continue to be profoundly harmful to First Nations people in Victoria," Bishop Treloar said, accepting they were grounded in "deep-seated and pervasive racism from which our church is far from immune".

"It's pretty hard to preach the gospel on stolen land."

It was revealed the Anglican Church's property trust has an estimated 260 hectares of land in Victoria, equating to about $1.49 billion. This does not account for church buildings, other buildings on church sites, or the Ballarat diocese, which refused to cooperate.

The Melbourne diocese alone holds $1.38 billion of that value.

Bishop Treloar added: "There's no question that there's an incredible disparity of land justice outcomes between the Anglican church and First Nations Victorians."

No Traditional Owner group in Victoria holds land of the value currently held by the Anglican or Catholic Church.

The Uniting Church made an application for suppression of its information, which Yoorrook has now made public. In a partial estimate of 1,211 of its churches, it estimated the value was $214.3 million at the end of 2022.

Reverend David Fotheringham from the Uniting Church told the hearings the desire to spread the gospel amongst Indigenous people "was completely entangled with the idea of the superiority of Western civilisation and certain social structures".

"So, it is entirely true that the missions were disastrous in that regard," he said.

The hearings last year heard all three of the major churches did not have a redress scheme to address the land acquisition, with Bishop Trealor accepting the 1.5 per cent of land sale revenue put forward by his Gippsland diocese towards Aboriginal ministry was "woefully inadequate".

He said at the time the church would be guided by Yoorrook on compensation towards Aboriginal people.

In an emotional statement, deputy chair Travis Lovett told the representatives of the religious institutions: "I have had to try to learn and reclaim language myself…very rarely is our language taught; our history taught."

"But we can learn other people's languages...Churches played a significant role in taking that human right and cultural right away from us," he said.

Yoorrook's final report, likely to offer recommendations on land, water, health, housing, and education, is due to be delivered in June 2025.

The recommendations of the interim report, delivered in late 2023, remain largely unfulfilled.