
St Patrick’s Parish, Akaroa
Akaroa On August 1840, about 57 settlers, 12 German and the rest French, disembarked from the Comte de Paris. The Catholics among them formed the founding nucleus

Akaroa On August 1840, about 57 settlers, 12 German and the rest French, disembarked from the Comte de Paris. The Catholics among them formed the founding nucleus

Church Name: St John the Evangelist (Photo courtesy of Maurice Newton, Halswell) The first Mass at Little River was in Mrs Keenan’s on the Coach

AKAROA 1ST CHURCH Church Name: St James and St Philip. First Church The first church in what was to become the Christchurch Diocese was built