The Archbishop of New Zealand is the head of the Anglican church in the Province of New Zealand and has under his direction nine dioceses.
This is not to be confused with either the Bishop of New Zealand or the Bishop of Aotearoa. The diocese of New Zealand split in to the seven dioceses on mainland New Zealand (Christchurch, Waiapu, Wellington, Nelson, Dunedin and Waikato), and the remainer of the diocese renamed to the Diocese of Auckland. George Augustus Selwyn was the first Bishop of New Zealand.
The Archbishop of New Zealand has no permanent See; instead the Archbishopric is held by a Bishop who takes on the additional title.
According to the "NewZealand Official Year-Book" for 1909 (a Government publication) the total number of Catholic schools in the dominion is 152 and the number of Catholic pupils attending is 12,650.
NewZealand Catholics have never asked or desired a grant for the religious education which is imparted in their schools.
The history of Catholic journalism in NewZealand is in effect the history of the "NewZealand Tablet," founded by the late Bishop Moran in 1873, the Catholics of this country having followed the principle that it is better to be represented by one strong paper than to have a multiplicity of publications.
The Archbishop of NewZealand is the primate, or head, of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, NewZealand and Polynesia.
By 1868, NewZealand had seven dioceses, and Selwyn's Diocese of NewZealand had been renamed as the Diocese of Auckland (the Diocese of Waikato was still then part of the Diocese of Auckland, and the Diocese of Melanesia was still part of the province).
In 1925, the Diocese of Polynesia began as a missionary diocese of the church.
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