Roman Catholic Diocese of Auckland

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Auckland is a Latin Rite diocese of the Catholic Church in Auckland, New Zealand. It was one of two dioceses in the country that were established on 20 June, 1848. Auckland became a suffragan diocese of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington in 1887.^[1] A large area of the diocese south of Auckland was split from the diocese on 6 March 1980 to form the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hamilton, New Zealand.

Ordinaries of Auckland

Tenure	Incumbent	Life
1836 to 1842	Jean-Baptiste-François Pompallier, (Vicar Apostolic of Western Oceania)	(1802 to 1871)
1842 to 1848	Jean-Baptiste-François Pompallier, (Vicar Apostolic of New Zealand)
1848-1869	Jean-Baptiste-François Pompallier, (1st Bishop of Auckland)
1870-1874	Thomas Croke	(1824 to 1902)
1879 to 1881	Walter Steins SJ	(1800 to 1881)
1882 to 1896	John Edmund Luck OSB	(1840 to 1896)
1896 to 1910	George Michael Lenihan OSB	(1858 to 1910)
1910 to 1929	Henry William Cleary	(1859 to 1929)
1929 to 1970	James Michael Liston	(1881 to 1976)
1970 to 1974	Reginald John Delargey	(1914 to 1978)
1974 to 1983	John Mackey	(1918 to 2014)
1983 to 1994	Denis George Browne	(1937 to -)
1994 to present	Patrick James Dunn	(1950 to -)

John Hubert Macey Rodgers SM (1915–1997) Vicar Apostolic of Tonga (1953–1957), Vicar Apostolic of Tonga and Niue (1957–1966) Bishop of Tonga (1966–1973), Bishop of Rarotonga (1973–1977), Auxiliary Bishop of Auckland (1977–1985), Superior of the Mission, Funafuti, Tuvalu (1986).
Robin Walsh Leamy SM (born 1934), Bishop of Rarotonga (1983–1996), Auxiliary Bishop of Auckland (1996–present).