History
The Archdiocese of Wellington, which is one of the two original dioceses in New Zealand (along with the Diocese of Auckland, was erected as a suffragan diocese on 20 June 1848. Previously there had been the Apostolic Vicariate of New Zealand, erected in 1842, with Jean Baptiste Pompallier as Vicar Apostolic.
Successively, portions of the original diocese became the new dioceses of Dunedin (26 November 1869), Christchurch (5 May 1887), and Palmerston North (6 March 1980).
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