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Congregation Of Christian Brothers In New Zealand
The Congregation of Christian Brothers in New Zealand is part of the Congregation of Christian Brothers, a Catholic Church, Catholic religious institute, and has been established in New Zealand since 1876. Its particular charism is the education of boys and in New Zealand it has been responsible for eight schools and has launched other educational initiatives.J. C. O'Neill, ''The History of the Work of the Christian Brothers in New Zealand'', unpublished Dip. Ed. thesis, University of Auckland, 1968; Graeme Donaldson, ''To All Parts of the Kingdom: Christian Brothers In New Zealand 1876–2001'', Christian Brothers New Zealand Province, Christchurch, 2001. Background The Christian Brothers were founded in Waterford, Ireland in 1802 by Edmund Ignatius Rice who was beatified in Rome in 1996. He was a wealthy committed Catholic businessman noted for his charity toward the poor. The death of his wife shortly after the birth of a handicapped daughter was a catalyst in his life. It deepe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregation Of Christian Brothers
The Congregation of Christian Brothers (; abbreviated CFC) is a worldwide religious community within the Catholic Church, founded by Edmund Ignatius Rice, Edmund Rice. Their first school opened in Waterford, Ireland in 1802. At the time of its foundation, though much relieved from the harshest of the Penal Laws against Irish Catholics, Penal Laws by the Relief Acts, Catholics faced much discrimination throughout the newly created United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland pending full Catholic emancipation in 1829. This congregation is sometimes referred to as simply "the Christian Brothers", leading to confusion with the De La Salle Brothers—also known as the Christian Brothers, sometimes by Lasallian organisations themselves. As such, Rice's congregation is sometimes called the Irish Christian Brothers or the Edmund Rice Christian Brothers. History Formation of the Christian brothers At the turn of the nineteenth century, Waterford merchant Edmund Rice considered travelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ōpōtiki
Ōpōtiki (; from ''Ōpōtiki-Mai-Tawhiti'') is a town in the eastern Bay of Plenty in the North Island of New Zealand. It houses the headquarters of the Ōpōtiki District Council, the mayor of Ōpōtiki and comes under the Bay of Plenty Regional Council. History In 1840, the New Zealand Church Missionary Society (CMS) established a station in Ōpōtiki. Ōpōtiki was the traditional centre of the Māori people, Māori iwi (tribe) Te Whakatōhea. On 2 March 1865, CMS missionary Carl Völkner was killed by local Māori for acting as a spy for the New Zealand Government. In response to Völkner's death, the New Zealand Government dispatched military expeditions to Ōpotiki to hunt down his killers. Several local people were arrested, with some being executed. The Government also confiscated a large area of land stretching from Matatā to the east of Ōpōtiki from local Bay of Plenty Region, Bay of Plenty tribes including Te Whakatōhea. Military settlers settled in Ōpōtiki, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Joseph's School, Oamaru
St Joseph's School is a school in Oamaru, the largest town in North Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand. It was established by an order of Catholic nuns — Dominican Sisters — who started teaching in Oamaru in 1882. It is associated with St Patrick's Basilica, Oamaru St Joseph's School is to be rebuilt on the campus of St Kevin's College while retaining its separate identity with the two schools schools having a common board."Oamaru primary school to move to St Kevin’s College site", CathNews new Zealand, 4 March 2025 (Retrieved 4 March 2025) History In 1884 the first classrooms were in the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oamaru
Oamaru (; ) is the largest town in North Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand, it is the main town in the Waitaki District. It is south of Timaru and north of Dunedin on the Pacific Ocean, Pacific coast; State Highway 1 (New Zealand), State Highway 1 and the railway Main South Line connect it to both cities. With a population of , Oamaru is the List of New Zealand urban areas, 28th largest urban area in New Zealand, and the third largest in Otago behind Dunedin and Queenstown, New Zealand, Queenstown. The town is the seat of Waitaki District, which includes the surrounding towns of Kurow, Weston, New Zealand, Weston, Palmerston, New Zealand, Palmerston, and Hampden, New Zealand, Hampden, which combined have a total population of 23,200. Friendly Bay is a popular recreational area located at the edge of Oamaru Harbour, south of Oamaru's main centre. Just to the north of Oamaru is the substantial Alliance Abattoir at Pukeuri, at a major junction with State Highway 83 (New Ze ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Kevin's College, Oamaru
St Kevin's College (also called Redcastle) in Oamaru, New Zealand, is a Catholic, coeducational, integrated, boarding and day, secondary school. It was founded by the Christian Brothers in 1927 for boys and became a co-educational school in 1983 on the closing of St Thomas's Girls' Secondary School operated by the Dominican Sisters. The college became a state integrated coeducational school in the same year.Graeme Donaldson, pp. 8 and 10. The Christian Brothers ceased to be on the teaching staff of the college in the late 1990s but remained the school's proprietor, and so appointed representatives to the college board until 2019 when they transferred the ownership of St Kevin's College to the Bishop of Dunedin. Jeff Dillon, "Southern college changes ownership after 90 years", ''NZ Catholic'' 14 July 2019, p. 3. The Catholic primary school for Oamaru, St Joseph's School is to be rebuilt on the St Kevin's College campus while retaining its separate identity with the two school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Edmund's School, Dunedin
Trinity Catholic College (known as Kavanagh College before 2023) is a Catholic, state-integrated, co-educational, secondary school located at Rattray St, in City Rise, central Dunedin, New Zealand. The school was founded in 1989 as the ultimate successor of several secondary schools and one primary school. The immediate predecessor schools were Moreau College (for girls) and St Edmund's boys primary school both located in South Dunedin and St Paul's High School (for boys) on whose Rattray St site Trinity Catholic College was established. Trinity is the only Catholic secondary school in Dunedin and is open to enrolments from throughout the entire city. The school's proprietor is the Catholic Bishop of Dunedin. The name Trinity Catholic College affirms the Christian belief in the Holy Trinity "which is God revealed as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, a community of love" and affirms "the Christian values and faith in God that are at the heart of the school’s mission.” Character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cook Islands
The Cook Islands is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of 15 islands whose total land area is approximately . The Cook Islands' Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) covers of ocean. Avarua is its capital. The Cook Islands is self-governing while in free association with New Zealand. Since the start of the 21st century, the Cook Islands conducts its own independent foreign and defence policy, and also has its own customs regulations. Like most members of the Pacific Islands Forum, it has no armed forces, but the Cook Islands Police Service owns a Guardian Class Patrol Boat, , provided by Australia, in order to police its waters. In recent decades, the Cook Islands have adopted an increasingly assertive and distinct foreign policy, and a Cook Islander, Henry Puna, served as Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum from 2021 to 2024. Most Cook Islanders are also citizens of New Zealand, but they also have the status of Coo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avarua
Avarua (meaning "Two Harbours" in Cook Islands Māori) is a town and district in the north of the island of Rarotonga, and is the national Capital city, capital of the Cook Islands. The town is served by Rarotonga International Airport (IATA Airport Code: RAR) and Avatiu Harbour. The population of Avarua District is 4,906 (census of 2016). Sub-districts The district of Avarua is subdivided into 19 tapere (traditional sub-districts) out of 54 for Rarotonga, grouped into 6 Census Districts, listed from west to east. Census figures are not available on the tapere level, but only for the so-called Census Districts, also listed from west to east: # Nikao-Panama (1,373 inhabitants), covering the taperes of: ## Pokoinu, ## Nikao (seat of Cook Islands parliament), and ## Puapuautu; # Avatiu-Ruatonga (951 inhabitants), covering the taperes of: ## Areanu, ## Kaikaveka, ## Atupa, ## Avatiu (commercial port), and ## Ruatonga; # Tutakimoa-Teotue (314 inhabitants), covering the tapere o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nukutere College
Nukutere College is a Roman Catholic secondary school located in Avarua, Rarotonga, Cook Islands. It is the country’s only Catholic secondary school and has an important educational role across the archipelago. "Nukutere" means "people on a journey", a reference to the pilgrim Church in the South Pacific context. Character Students come mainly from Rarotonga, but provision is made for those from outer islands (as well as some from French Polynesia) to stay with 'guardians'. As at 2010, Nukutere College and all other private and church schools in the Cook Islands receive 100% of the equivalent allocation of funds to which they are entitled as a government school from the national budget. All government, private and church schools are required to be open to both educational and financial audit. The college generally has a roll of 170–200 pupils and a staff of 13. In 2007, a government-funded Special Needs unit was opened at the college, the only such unit in Rarotonga. Origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auckland
Auckland ( ; ) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of as of It is the List of cities in New Zealand, most populous city of New Zealand and the List of cities in Oceania by population, fifth-largest city in Oceania. The city lies between the Hauraki Gulf to the east, the Hunua Ranges to the south-east, the Manukau Harbour to the south-west, and the Waitākere Ranges and smaller ranges to the west and north-west. The surrounding hills are covered in rainforest and the landscape is dotted with 53 volcanic centres that make up the Auckland Volcanic Field. The central part of the urban area occupies a narrow isthmus between the Manukau Harbour on the Tasman Sea and the Waitematā Harbour on the Pacific Ocean. Auckland is one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henderson, New Zealand
Henderson is a suburb of West Auckland, New Zealand. It is west of Auckland city centre, and west of the Whau River, a southwestern arm of the Waitematā Harbour. Henderson initially developed around the mill of Thomas Henderson and was known as ''Henderson's Mill''. As it expanded it became known as just Henderson and later it became an independent borough. As part of the 1989 local government reforms it became the centre of Waitakere City until Waitakere City was amalgamated to form the new Auckland Council. Geography Henderson is located between the Waitākere Ranges to the west, and the Te Atatū Peninsula in the east. The area is within the catchment of Te Wai-o-Pareira / Henderson Creek, an estuarial arm of the Waitematā Harbour. The Ōpanuku, Oratia, Swanson, Momutu and Paremuka streams meet at Te Wai-o-Pareira / Henderson Creek, to the north of Henderson. Between 3 and 5 million years ago, tectonic forces uplifted the Waitākere Ranges and central Aucklan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liston College
Liston College is a school in Henderson, New Zealand, Henderson, Auckland, New Zealand, for year seven to 13 boys and offers a Roman Catholic, Catholic education to its students. It was the second List of Christian Brothers schools, school opened by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in New Zealand, Christian Brothers in Auckland. It was named after James Michael Liston, Archbishop Liston (1881–1976), the seventh Catholic Bishop of Auckland (1929–1970). The school was founded in 1974 to serve the Catholic families of West Auckland, New Zealand, West Auckland and to absorb the growing number of boys who travelled daily to St Peter's College, Auckland, St Peter's College in central Auckland.Graeme Donaldson, To All Parts of the Kingdom: Christian Brothers In New Zealand 1876–2001, Christian Brothers New Zealand Province, Christchurch, 2001, p. 17. History Beginnings Archbishop Liston of Auckland had, for some years, intended to establish a Catholic boys' school in Hender ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
