Arcibiskupem Wellingtonu byl jmenován 9. května 1954. Byl rovněž předsedou Biskupské konference Nového Zélandu. Účastnil se Druhého vatikánského koncilu – během koncilu zastával konzervativní názory, byl proti zavádění národních jazyků v…
As a cardinal, McKeefry was appointed to two international commissions based in Rome: the Sacred Congregation for the Clergy and the Sacred Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (also called the Congregation for the Propagation of…
Parishes number 22 and the archdiocese extends over central New Zealand between Levin and Masterton in the north to Kaikoura to Westport in the south. [1 ]
Die Bischofsweihe empfing Thomas PeterMcKeefry durch den Erzbischof von Sydney, Norman Thomas Kardinal Gilroy; Mitkonsekratoren waren Thomas O’Shea, Erzbischof von Wellington, und James Michael Liston, Bischof von Auckland.
Thomas O'Shea was born in 1870 to Irish immigrant parents Edmond Shea and Johanna Sullivan in San Francisco, California. [3 ] He received his education in New Zealand, attending St Patrick's College, Wellington, and later became a teacher…
He added 14 new parishes to the 22 existing in 1920. Religious orders commencing work in the Dunedin diocese over the same period were the Vincentians (who took over Holy Cross seminary in 1934), the Dominican Fathers, the Redemptorist…
Thomas William Croke D.D. (28 May 1824 – 22 July 1902) was the second Catholic Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand (1870–74) and later Archbishop of Cashel and Emly in Ireland.