Suffragan diocese Dunedin, New Zealand
Diocese of Dunedin
Dunedinen(sis)
Latin Church
Latin rite diocese covering the southern South Island of New Zealand, seated in Dunedin. Erected on 26 November 1869, it is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Wellington and its seat is St. Joseph's Cathedral, Dunedin.
On the map
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- Established
- 1869
- Catholics
- 34,000
- Priests
- 31
- Territory
- 64,747 km²
Parishes and churches
42 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- St Mary, Star of the SeaBluffView parish
- St MichaelLumsdenView parish
- St PatrickArrowtownView parish
- St PatrickGeorgetown, InvercargillView parish
- St PatrickLawrenceView parish
- St PatrickOamaruView parish
- St PeterOmakauView parish
- St Peter ChanelGreen Island, DunedinView parish
- St Theresa of LisieuxInvercargill NorthView parish
- St Thomas AquinasWintonView parish
- Sts Peter & PaulNightcapsView parish
- The Irish MartyrsCromwellView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Michael Dooley
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The cathedral
St. Joseph's Cathedral, Dunedin stands in Dunedin, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
History
Dunedin, the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, is the see city and cathedral home of the Latin Rite Roman Catholic Diocese of Dunedin (Dioecesis Dunedinensis), a suffragan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington. It was created on 26 November 1869 out of part of the territory of the Diocese of Wellington, before that see became an archdiocese.