List of New Zealand Catholics
This is a list of notable New Zealand Catholics. All additions should be sourced and ideally their faith or Catholic identity should be significant to their notability.
Activists
- Marilyn Pryor,[1][2] served on the Executive Council of what is now called Voice for Life
Artists and architects
- Francis Petre, architect of cathedrals[3][4]
Businesspeople
- Charles Todd[5] motor-industry pioneer and temperance activist; many in the Todd family were or are Catholics
Politicians
- Peter Dignan,[6][7] fifteenth Mayor of Auckland City
- Bill English,[8][9] seventeenth and current Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Heremia Te Wake,[10] tribal leader and catechist
- Joseph Ward,[11][12] seventeenth Prime Minister of New Zealand
Religious
Clergy
See also: List of New Zealand Catholic bishops
- Fr. Mark Beban,[13] also a cricketer.
- Fr. Felix Donnelly,[14][15] social activist, writer, academic and radio talkback host
- Rev. Fr. George Duggan,[16][17] philosopher and centenarian
- Fr. David Kennedy,[18] astronomer and educator
- Antony Sumich, F.S.S.P.,[19][20][21] New Zealander who was a former international Rugby Union and Cricket player for Croatia.
- Fr. Wiremu Te Awhitu,[22] first Māori to be ordained
Religious sisters and nuns
- Mary St Domitille Hickey,[23] historian, school principal, and reportedly the first New Zealand woman to be awarded a doctorate in literature
- Mary Gonzaga Leahy,[24] nun and hospital matron
- Sister Mary Leo,[25] music educator, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- Marie Elizabeth Roche,[26] honored for her work in a prison
Writers and journalists
- K. O. Arvidson,[27][28] poet and academic
- James K. Baxter,[29] poet and convert who was offered a job composing catechetical material for the Catholic Education Board
- Patrick Anthony Lawlor,[30] writer known for the autobiographical work Old Wellington days, also worked for the Catholic Writers’ Movement of New Zealand
References
- ↑ The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
- ↑ Catholic Worker New Zealand
- ↑ Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
- ↑ Francis Petre, 1847-1918 by Philippe Hamilton
- ↑ The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
- ↑ Cyclopedia Company Limited (1902). "Mr. Peter Dignan". The Cyclopedia of New Zealand : Auckland Provincial District. Christchurch: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
- ↑ G.W.A. Bush, Decently and In Order: The Government of the City of Auckland 1840-1971, Collins, 1971, p.521.
- ↑ "Church has vital place in our secular society". Challenge Weekly 66 (6). 2008-02-25. Archived from the original on 2008-03-04. Retrieved 2009-10-01.
- ↑ Colin James, Bill English conservative: a 2000s update, New Zealand Herald Weekend Review, 2 December 2006.
- ↑ Oliver, Steven. "Heremia Te Wake". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved December 2011. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ The Encyclopaedia of New Zealand biography
- ↑ Sir Joseph Ward: A Political Biography by Michael Bassett (1993, Auckland University Press)
- ↑ "Player profile - Mark Beban". ESPN. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
- ↑ Felix Donnelly, One Priest's Life, Australia and New Zealand Book Company, Auckland, 1982.
- ↑ Queen's Birthday Honours List 1998. Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
- ↑ "Rev. Fr. George Henry Duggan SM Obituary: View George Duggan's Obituary by The Dominion Post". Deaths.dompost.co.nz. Retrieved 2013-01-09.
- ↑ Lyndsay Freer, "George Henry Duggan – the man, the myth", Marist Messenger, 1 July 2012 (Retrieved 9 January 2012)
- ↑ Laracy, Hugh. "David Kennedy". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved December 2011. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ "Kiwi ordained for St Peter fraternity", NZ Catholic, Apr. 6-19, 2008, p. 2.
- ↑ (E) Croatian Antony Sumich Story, Crown Croatian World Network, Antony Sumich, 2005 (accessed 29 June 2010)
- ↑ St Anthony's Parish, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, clergy list (Retrieved 12 August 2013)
- ↑ Mariu, Max T. "Te Awhitu, Wiremu Hakopa Toa 1914 - 1994". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
- ↑ Wright, Marie Gabrielle. "Mary St Domitille Hickey". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved December 2011. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ Engel, Pauline F. "Mary Gonzaga Leahy". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved December 2011. Check date values in:
|access-date=(help) - ↑ The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
- ↑ "Nun works behind bars to improve lives of others". stuff.co.nz. 2011. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
15 years as Rimutaka Prison's Catholic chaplain
- ↑ "Arvidson, K.O.", Robinson and Wattie, The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature, Oxford, Auckland 1998, pp. 27 and 28.
- ↑ "K. O. Arvidson | NZETC". nzetc.org. 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2012.
K. O. Arvidson 1938–
- ↑ James Baxter biography from the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography
- ↑ Broughton, W. S. "Patrick Anthony Lawlor". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved December 2011. Check date values in:
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