Ecclesiastical and Educational Statistics

New Zealand Tablet, 19 January 1922, Page 31

Ecclesiastical and Educational Statistics

The Catholic Directory {Onto) for 1922 supplies the following interesting ecclesiastical and educational statistics in respect to New Zealand; - ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON. Number of districts, 45; churches, 127; priests, regular 54, secular 47, total 101; religious Brothers, 30; nuns, 513 colleges, 2; boarding and high schools, 18; primary schools, 55; orphanages, 4; inmates, 432; homes for incurable, 2; inmates, 140; creche, 1; inmates, 30; total number of children receiving Catholic education .in the archdiocese, 8483; total Catholic population ,of the archdiocese, 55,437 (census of 1916), exclusive of Maoris; Maori Catholic population, 2071. ’ ' DIOCESE OF AUCKLAND. Parishes, 48; diocesan clergy, 49; Fathers of St. Joseph’s Foreign Missionary Society, 22; religious Brothers, 15; Sisters, 290; schools (boarding) for boys, 1; for girls, 16; superior and primary day schools, 39; teachers, 169; orphanages, 2; home for the poor, 1; hospital and convalscent home, 1 ; total number of children receiving Catholic education, 5734; total Catholic population of the diocese (census of 1916), about 40,000; Catholic Maoris, about 3000. DIOCESE OF CHRISTCHURCH. Number of districts, 21; churches, 63; priests, 50; secular, 22 ; regular, 28; religious Brothers, 11; nuns, 296; boarding and high schools, 8; primary schools, 29; Magdalen Asylum, 1; Industrial and preservation school, 1; orphanage, 1; Nazareth House, 1; Girls’ hostel, 2; number of Catholics in diocese, 30,000. DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN. Districts, 24; churches, 70; stations, 45; secular priests, 42; religious Brothers, 8; nuns, 222; boarding schools (girls), .6; boarding school (hoys), 1; superior day schools, 6; primary schools, 23; ecclesiastical seminary," orphanages, 2; home for the aged poor, 1 ; children in Catholic schools, 3163; Catholic population, 24,500.