Priests’ arrival recalled
The arrival in New Zealand of seven Dutch priests in 1952 will be commemorated next month by members of the Roman Catholic Dutch community. The priests, of the Assumptionist order, were sent from the Netherlands in 1952, two years after Dutch immigrants arrived in New Zealand through a Government settlement scheme. The immigrants sent for the priests because titey wanted their own spiritual leaders, and in 1968, the] priests founded New Zealand’s first co-educationalj Roman Catholic school, Viardi College at Porirua. The Assumptionist priests now have two parishes, one at Auckland, and the other at Inglewood. The celebrations will begin on October 29 with a Massin the Basilica, Wellington.
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Press, 19 September 1977, Page 7
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