Ecclesiastical Province of New Zealand

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 2, 14 January 1925, Page 21

Ecclesiastical Province of New Zealand

DIOCESAN STATISTICS. The Ordo (Australasian Catholic Directory for 1925) gives the following statistical information regarding the various dioceses of the Dominion: Summary of the Archdiocese of Wellington*. Number of districts, 46; churches, 128; priests—regular 62, secular 51; total 113. Religious Brothers, 20; nuns, 550; colleges, 2; boarding and high schools, 17; primary schools, 56; orphanages, 4; in mates, 469; homes for incurable, 2; inmates, 140; creche, 1; inmates, 30. Total number of children receiving Catholic education in the archdiocese, 9537; total Catholic population of the archdiocese, 61,243 (census 1921), including Maoris; Maori Catholic population, 2071. Summary of the Diocese of Auckland. Parishes, 51; diocesan clergy, 49; Maris? Fathers, 3; Fathers of St. Joseph's Foreign Missionary Society, 22; total, 74; religious Brothers, 23; Sisters, 375; schools. (boar Tug) for hoys 1, for girls 16; superior and primary • day schools, 4.3; teachers, 186; orphanages, 2; home for the poor, 1; hospital and convalescent home, 1. Total number of children receiving Catholic education, 6591. Total Catholic population of the diocese, 49,334 (census; of ■ 1921). Catholic Maoris, about 3000. ' " Summary of the Diocese of Christchurch. Number of district's, 21 ; churches', 63 ; priests, 56 (secular 33, regular 23); 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. Summary of the Diocese of Dunedin. , Districts, 24; churches, 71; stations, 45; secular priests, 40; religious Brothers, 9; nuns, 222; boarding schools (girls), 6; boarding school for boys, 1; superior day schools, 6; primary schools, 23; ecclesiastical seminary, 1; orphanages, 2; home for the. aged poor, 1; children in Catholic schools,. 3163; Catholic population, 25,000. , "