Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
AUCKLAND, DIOCESE of. - In New Zealand, a suffragan diocese of Wellington, erected and entrusted to the secular clergy in 1848 through the division of the apostolic vicariate of Western Oceania.
The diocese of A. comprises the civil province of the same name and the Kermadec Islands group, with an area of 76,800 sq. km. and 500,000 white inhabitants (1936 census), of whom 217,300 are concentrated in the capital, and approximately 40,000 Maori aborigines. Eighty-six per cent of the population is Protestant (Presbyterians, Anglicans, and Methodists): Catholics, according to the statistics of the Australasian Catholic Directory (1948), number
AUCHER, Giovanni Battista - Portrait - Venice, convent of the Mechitarist Fathers.68,700, including 6,700 Maori. The diocese has 73 parishes with 167 churches, 255 priests, of whom 39 are religious, 65 brothers, and 531 nuns belonging to various religious congregations. Pupils educated in the diocesan Catholic schools number 10,324.
BIBL.: J. B. Pompaffier, Early History of the Catholic Church in Oceania, Auckland 1888; P. F. Moran, History of the Catholic Church in Australasia, Sydney s. d.; P. W. M. Marshall, Christian Missions, Nuova York 1896; Guida delle Missioni Cattoliche, Roma 1935, pp. 340-49; Australasian Catholic Directory, Sydney 1948, pp. 362-72. Valentino Belgeri
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“AUCKLAND, DIOCESI DI.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), p. 246. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/auckland-diocesi-di.
