Ecclesiastical and Educational Statistics

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LI, Issue 8, 21 February 1924, Page 17

Ecclesiastical and Educational Statistics

The Catholic Directory {Ordo) for 1924 supplies the gfff following interesting ecclesiastical and educational statistics in respect to New Zealand: \ Archdiocese of Wellington. •Number of districts, 4G; churches, 128; priests, reguftW lar 64, secular 49; total 113. Religious 'Brothers, 29; nuns, IW 530; colleges, 2; boarding and high schools, 17; primary schools, 56; orphanages, 4; inmates, 469; homes' for incurable, 2; inmates, 140; creche, 1; inmates, 30. • ’ Diocese of Auckland. Parishes, 49; diocesan clergy, 50; Fathers of St. Jog seph’s Missionary -Society, 20; total, 70; religious Brothers, 23; Sisters, 329; schools —boarding—for boys, 1; for girls, pAy.l6; superior and primary day schools, 12; teachers, 186; wsy oiphanages, 2; home for the poor, 1; hospital and convaleslfv :cent home, 1. Total number of children receiving Catholic education, 6425. Total Catholic population of the diocese, - 49,334 (iii 1921). Catholic Maoris, about 3000. 8 Diocese of Christchurch. ife Number of districts, 21; churches, 63; priests, 50 (secular 22; regular 28); religious Brothers, 11; nuns, 296; boarding and high schools, 8y primary schools, 29; Magasylum, 1; Industrial and Preservation School, 1; py orphanage, 1; Nazareth House, 1; Girls’ Hostels, 2; number of Catholics in diocese, 30,000. V >*■ , Diocese of Dunedin. BpV't Districts, 24; churches, 71; stations, 45; secular priests, -religious Brothers, 9; nuns, 222; boarding schools (girls), 6; boarding school'.(boys), 1; superior day schools, 6; primary schools, 23; ecclesiastical seminary, 1; orphany ages, 2; home for they aged poor, 1; children in Catholic ff: schools, 3163; Catholic population, 25,000. ■ •■ ’