Roman Catholic Church in New Zealand
The Roman Catholic Church in New Zealand is part of the Roman Catholic Church worldwide .
The Catholic Church in New Zealand has about 470,000 Catholic Christians (as of 2005); Text in italics means that 12% of New Zealand's population are baptized Catholics. There are 530 priests and 1200 men and women serving the Church in the six dioceses of New Zealand. New Zealand consists of a church province , Wellington , with the metropolitan seat of the same name.
The metropolitan association of the Archdiocese of Wellington consists of the dioceses
- Diocese of Auckland
- Christchurch Diocese
- Diocese of Palmerston North
- Diocese of Dunedin
- Diocese of Hamilton
The Catholic Church is represented by the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference (NZCBC) ; The chairman is the Archbishop of Wellington, John Atcherley Dew . Apostolic Nuncio has been Archbishop Novatus Rugambwa since March 2019 .