Members of the Order’s New Zealand Magistral Delegation recently visited the Auckland Diocese’s Archive for a presentation on the life of French-born missionary Bishop Jean-Baptiste François Pompallier, the first Catholic bishop in New Zealand and the first member of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre in New Zealand. Bishop Pompallier had arrived in New Zealand in 1838 with a small band of Marist missionaries, as Vicar Apostolic of Western Oceania, but made New Zealand the centre of his operations. He returned to France in 1868 and died in Puteaux, near Paris, in 1871, aged 70. His exhumed remains were […]

The Magistral Delegation of New Zealand appoints four new council members in 2024. Janet Ponifasio DCHS as Chancellor; Stephen Fitness, as Treasurer; Rodolfo de la Vega, as Lay Master of Ceremonies; and Craig Franswah, as Mentor for Aspirants. We thank and pray for our retiring members for years of service and dedication to the Holy Order. Please pray for our new council members that God guides them in their duties.