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Our first Bishop, Jean-Baptiste Pompallier, was a Frenchman born to a well-to-do family with aristocratic connections. He would follow in the footsteps of Marcellin Champagnat and the other Marists who had earlier made their solemn promise to found the Society of Mary at the shrine of Fourviere.
La biographie de Jean-Baptiste Pompallier, écrite par l’historien Yannick Essertel, s’appuie sur et s’inspire de l’anthropologie sociale et historique pour reconstruire la vie de celui qui sera pendant trente ans – de 1838 à 1868 – le premier vicaire apostolique d’Océanie occidentale en Nouvelle-Zélande.
Jean Baptiste Pompallier. A French bishop living amongst hostile British settlers in New Zealand, Pompallier was sympathetic to Māori concerns, and for his time had an enlightened view towards Māori. Read more... This distinctively French-looking building at Russell in the Bay of Islands is a monument to early Catholic missionaries.
The Pompallier Hokianga Trust preserves and promotes the memory and mission of the first Catholic Bishop of Aotearoa New Zealand, Jean Baptiste François Pompallier (1801-1871). He visited many localities throughout the land and set up many mission stations and churches. This Trust promotes visits to three of these important historic sites, all ...
Bishop Jean Baptiste François Pompallier headed the French Catholic missionary efforts in New Zealand and arrived in the Hokianga district in 1838. He spent 30 years in New Zealand, returning to France in 1869 and dying there in 1871. Pompallier was not well known in France but New Zealanders remembered him and visited and tidied his grave in ...
Jean Baptiste Pompallier. 1801-1871 . Jean-Baptiste POMPALLIER naît à Lyon en 1801. Quelques mois après sa naissance son père décède. En 1816, sa mère et son beau-père s’installent à Vourles. C’est après avoir travaillé, entre autres dans l’entreprise familiale, qu’en 1826 il entre au Séminaire Saint-Irénée.
Roman Catholic missionary. Born in Lyon on 11 December 1801 (some sources state 1802), and entered priesthood in 1829. Arrived in Hokianga in 1838 ...
