Join us for Mass at 8.30 am to celebrate the signing of Aotearoa, New Zealand’s founding document.

Bishop Pompallier was present at Waitangi in 1840 when the Treaty was being debated. He made an important contribution, obtaining from the future Governor Hobson a guarantee of religious freedom for all beliefs in New Zealand; there was to be no established church, as there was in England.

The so-called ‘fourth clause of the Treaty’ reads:

“The governor says the several faiths of England, of the Wesleyans, of Rome, and also Māori custom, shall be alike protected by him”.

We pray to the Lord and give thanks for his unification of us as one family in Aotearoa.