St Patrick's Cathedral, Auckland: Difference between revisions

The Cathedral of St Patrick and St Joseph is the cathedral of the Catholic Bishop of Auckland. It is on the original site granted by the Crown to Jean Baptiste Pompallier, the first Bishop, on 01 June 1841. To minister to the 300 or 400, mostly Irish, Catholics in Auckland in the 1840s, a wooden chapel, clergy house and school room (the first amenity ready for use) were opened and blessed on 29 January 1843.