Religious Orders
- The Community of Sisters of the Church was active in the diocese from the end of the 19th century until the 1930s. They were invited by Bishop Nevill to found a school for girls. They founded St Hilda's Collegiate School.
- Brother Keith a solitary religious with vows to the bishop was active in the diocese in the 1990s.
- From 2011 a friar of the Society of Saint Francis is residing in the diocese during his doctoral studies at the University of Otago.
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