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Bishop Viard College
Address
20 Kenepuru Drive, Porirua, New Zealand
Coordinates	41.1404°S 174.8393°E / -41.1404; 174.8393
Information
Type	State integrated, Co-educational, Secondary Years 7-15
Motto	Truth is Light
Established	1968
Ministry of Education Institution no.	256
Principal	Hedley Aitken
School roll	463
Socio-economic decile	2
Website	http://www.viard.school.nz/

Bishop Viard College is a coeducational secondary school (years 7-13) located in Porirua, New Zealand. The college is now integrated into the state system under the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act 1975.

The college was founded in 1968 by Cardinal Peter McKeefry, Archbishop of Wellington, and was staffed by the Assumptionist Fathers and Brigidine Sisters. The schools was named after Philippe Viard, the first Catholic Bishop of Wellington Originally the school consisted of two institutions (for boys and girls) on the same site, however it was the first Catholic school in New Zealand to educate girls and boys at the same facility with the school became a single co-educational unit in 1975.

References/Sources

• Lillian G. Keys, Philip Viard, Bishop of Wellington, Pegasus Press, Christchurch, 1968.
• Ernest Richard Simmons, Brief history of the Catholic Church in New Zealand, Catholic Publications Centre, Auckland, 1978.
• Michael King, God's farthest outpost : a history of Catholics in New Zealand, Viking, Auckland 1997.
• Michael O'Meeghan S.M., Steadfast in hope : the story of the Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington 1850-2000, Dunmore press, Palmerston North, 2003.
• John V Broadbent, Viard, Philippe Joseph 1809 - 1872 Priest, missionary, bishop Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, accessed 23 March 2009: http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/
• Te Kete Ipurangi

External links

• School website