The Diocese of Auckland is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in New Zealand. It was one of two dioceses in the country that were established on 20 June 1848. Auckland became a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Wellington in 1887."Original NZ dioceses celebrate birthdays", NZ Catholic, June 1998. A large area of the diocese south of Auckland was split from the diocese on 6 March 1980 to form the Diocese of Hamilton. , almost 40 per cent of New Zealand’s 471,000 Catholics lived within the diocese of Auckland.Bishop Lowe is the new bishop of Auckland, NZ Catholic, 18 December 2021 (Retrieved 18 December 2021)

Ordinaries of Auckland

Tenure Incumbent Life 1836–1842 Jean-Baptiste-François Pompallier (Vicar Apostolic of Western Oceania); see below 1802–1871 1842–1848 Jean-Baptiste-François Pompallier (Vicar Apostolic of New Zealand); see above & below 1848–1869 Jean-Baptiste-François Pompallier (1st Bishop of Auckland); see above 1870–1874 Thomas Croke 1824–1902 1879–1881 Walter Steins SJ, Archbishop (personal title) 1800–1881 1882–1896 John Luck OSB 1840–1896 1896–1910 George Lenihan OSB 1858–1910 1910–1929 Henry Cleary 1859–1929 1929–1970 James Liston, Archbishop (personal title) in 1953 1881–1976 1970–1974 Reginald John Delargey (future Cardinal) 1914–1979 1974–1983 John Mackey 1918–2014 1983–1994 Denis Browne 1937–2024 1994–2021 Patrick Dunn Born 1950 2021–present Stephen Lowe Born 1962

Delargey was appointed Archbishop of Wellington in 1974 (Cardinal in 1976). Browne was appointed Bishop of Hamilton in New Zealand in 1994.

Other bishops Auxiliary bishops Reginald John Delargey (1914–1979) (Priest: 19 Mar 1938; Auxiliary Bishop: 25 Nov 1957; Bishop: 1 Sep 1970 to 25 Apr 1974); later Cardinal. Edward Gaines (Auxiliary Bishop: 28 Oct 1976 to 6 Mar 1980), appointed Bishop of Hamilton. John Hubert Macey Rodgers SM (1915–1997) Vicar Apostolic of Tonga (1953–1957), Vicar Apostolic of Tonga and Niue (1957–1966) Bishop of Tonga (1966–1973), Bishop of Rarotonga (1973–1977), Auxiliary Bishop of Auckland (1977–1985), Superior of the Mission, Funafuti, Tuvalu (1986). Patrick Dunn (Priest: 24 Apr 1976; Auxiliary Bishop: 10 Jun 1994; Bishop: 19 Dec 1994 to 17 Dec 2021). Michael Gielen (born 2 June 1971), Auxiliary Bishop of Auckland (2020–2022); Bishop of Christchurch (2022-present)

Coadjutor bishop James Michael Liston (1920–1929).

Bishop assistant Robin Walsh Leamy SM (1934 – 2022), Bishop Emeritus of Rarotonga, Cook Islands, (Bishop Assistant in Auckland: 1996–2009)"Bishop Bob Leamy releases his autobiography", Society of Mary website (Retrieved 15 January 2019))

Other priests of this diocese who became bishops Matthew Joseph Brodie, appointed Bishop of Christchurch in 1915 Peter Thomas McKeefry, appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Wellington in 1947; Cardinal from 1969 Owen Noel Snedden, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Wellington in 1962

Current bishops Stephen Lowe, 12th Bishop of Auckland (17 December 2021 - present) Patrick Dunn, Emeritus Bishop of Auckland

Cathedral St Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland Parishes The parish churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Auckland:

Auckland City, Cathedral St Patrick & St Joseph Avondale, St Mary of the Immaculate Conception Balmoral, Good Shepherd BeachHaven, Maria Assumpta Blockhouse Bay, St Dominic Clover Park, St Peter Chanel Coromandel Peninsula & Hauraki Plains Dargaville, Sacred Heart Devonport, St Francis de Sales & All Souls East Coast Bays Parishes Ellerslie, Immaculate Conception Epsom, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Flat Bush, St Luke Glen Eden, Our Lady of Lourdes Glen Innes, St Pius X Glendowie, Mother of Perpetual Help Glenfield, St Thomas More Grey Lynn, St Joseph Helensville, St Joseph Henderson, Holy Cross Hibiscus Coast Hillsborough, St John Vianney Howick, Our Lady, Star of the Sea Kaitaia, Holy Family Kerikeri, Holy Family Korean Parish, Holy Family Mangere Parishes Manurewa, St Anne Massey, St Paul Meadowbank, Our Lady of Fatima Mid-North Parishes Mt Albert, St Mary Mt Wellington, St Bernadette Newton, St Benedicts Northcote, St Mary Onehunga, Our Lady of the Assumption Orakei, St Joseph Otahuhu, Ss Joseph & Joachim Owairaka, Christ the King Pakuranga, St Mark Papatoetoe, Holy cross parish Waiheke Island, St Peter Warkworth, Holy Name Wellsford, St Mary Whangarei, St Francis Xavier

See also St Michael's Church, Remuera Holy Cross Seminary Marist Seminary Good Shepherd College Holy Name Seminary St Mary's Seminary Roman Catholicism in New Zealand List of New Zealand Catholic bishops Diocese of Rarotonga

Secondary schools

Baradene College, Remuera, Auckland Carmel College, Milford, Auckland De La Salle College, Mangere East, Auckland Liston College, Henderson Auckland Marcellin College, Royal Oak, Auckland Marist College, Mt Albert, Auckland McAuley High School, Otahuhu, Auckland Pompallier Catholic College, Maunu, Whangarei Rosmini College, Takapuna, Auckland Sacred Heart College, Glen Innes, Auckland Sancta Maria College, Howick, Auckland St Dominic's College, Henderson, Auckland St Ignatius of Loyola Catholic College, Drury, Auckland St Mary's College, Ponsonby, Auckland St Paul's College, Ponsonby, Auckland St Peter's College, Grafton, Auckland

Defunct schools Hato Petera College, Northcote, Auckland

Missions Croatian Catholic Mission in Auckland was established in 1904. Current mission leader (since August 2024) is rev. Danko Bizjak, priest of the Sisak Diocese.

References

External links

Auckland Catholic Diocese