AUCKLAND, Diocese of. - In New Zealand, a diocese suffragan to Wellington, erected and entrusted to the secular clergy in 1848 with the division of the apostolic vicariate of Western Oceania.

The diocese of A. comprises the civil province of the same name and the group of the Kermadec Islands, 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 about 40,000 Maori aborigines. 86% of the population is Protestant (Presbyterians, Anglicans and Methodists): the Catholics, according to the statistics of the Australasian Catholic Directory (1948), number

68,700, including 6,700 Maoris. The diocese has 73 parishes with 167 churches, 255 priests of whom 39 are religious, 65 brothers and 531 sisters belonging to various religious congregations. The pupils educated in the diocesan Catholic schools number 10,324.

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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 n.d.; P. W. M. Marshall, Christian Missions, New York 1896; Guida delle Missioni Cattoliche, Rome 1935, pp. 340-49; Australasian Catholic Directory, Sydney 1948, pp. 362-72.

Valentino Belgeri

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