The diocese includes several communities ministering to specific ethnic groups.
Contact details for these chaplaincies can be accessed below: either scroll through the list, or click on the name of a group.
- Auckland Catholic Filipino Chaplaincy (ACFC)
- Chinese Community
- Cook Island Community
- Croatian Community
- Eastern Melkite Catholic Community
- Fijian Community
- Indian Community
- Indonesian Community
- Iraqi Chaldean Catholic Community
- Kiribati Community
- Korean Parish
- Latin American (Spanish speaking) Community
- Polish Community
- Samoan Community
- Syro-Malabar Community
- Tamaki Maori Mission Team and Maori Community
- Tongan Catholic Chaplaincy
- Vietnamese Community
Auckland Catholic Filipino Chaplaincy (ACFC)
27 Telford Ave, Mt Eden
Ph: 09 620 9517 Ph/Fax: 09 620 9515
Fr Elmer Dimarucut MSP
Chinese Community
Contact: Fr Peter Choy
82 Kelmarna Ave, Herne Bay
Residence Ph/Fax: 09 360 1099
Mob: 021 189 3838
email: info@accc.org.nz
website: www.accc.org.nz
Cook Island Community
Turou Community Centre
419 Great North Rd
Grey Lynn, Auckland 1021
Ph: 09 376 5520
Mr Christopher Katia
Ph: 09 376 0345
Polynesian Centre
90 Bader Drive, Mangere
Manukau 2022
Ph: 09 275 4291
Mr John Peyroux (Chairman)
Rev Chris Loughnan OP
Email: chris.loughnan@op.org.
Ph: 09 308 9384 (Res)
Croatian Community
TBA
Eastern Melkite Catholic Community
Fr Gerges Albutros
Melkite Catholic Church
5 Mt Lebanon Crescent
The Gardens
Manukau City 2105
Phone & Fax 09- 267 1124
Moblie 021 885 565
email: steliasparish@hotmail.com
Fijian Community
50 Duggan Ave
Mangere
Manukau 2022
Ph 09 256 0316
Hector Zinck
email: ZINCK@xtra.co.nz
Rev Mikaele Tikoisuva (Chaplain)
Mobile: 021 144 1747
email: frtikoisuvam@gmail.com
Indian Community
26 Kitenui Ave, Mt Albert
Auckland 1025
Ph: 09 846 6227 Ph/Fax: 09 846 6549
email: psarjusm@yahoo.com.au
Sr Patricia Sarju SM
Indonesian Community
Indonesian Mass celebrated in St Benedict’s Church
1 St Benedict’s St
Eden Terrace, Auckland 1010
(Every 4th Sunday; 01.30pm)
Sora Joseph W (Coordinator)
Mob: 022 044 1965
email: news@kkia.org.nz
Web: www.kkia.org.nz
Iraqi Chaldean Catholic Community
St. Addai the Apostle Chaldean Catholic Church
505 Great South Road Papatoetoe
Manukau
Ph: 09 – 277 9572 Fax: 09 – 277 9573
E-mail: chaldeannz@hotmail.com
Rev. Fr. Fawzi Hanna
Kiribati community
Fr Arobati Rikare
(Warkworth parish)
14 Percy St
Warkworth 0910
Ph 09 425 8545
E-mail: fr.arobati@hotmail.com
Korean Parish
Auckland Korean Holy Family Church
28-32 Bishop Dunn Pl, East Tamaki
PO Box 258050
Greenmount, Manukau 2141
Parish Priest: Rev Anthony D Y Kim
Assistant Priest: Rev John Lee
Ph: 09 273 5507 Fax: 09 273 5404
Mob: 027 733 0115
Parish Office
Mr Michael Lee (Secretary)
Ph: 09 273 5501 Fax: 09 273 5401
Mob: 027 444 5960
email: nzlkcc@world-net.co.nz
Website: www.holyfamily.co.nz
Latin American (Spanish speaking) Community
Meets at St Benedict’s Church
1 St Benedict’s St
Eden Terrace, Auckland 1010
Rev Bernard Dennehy (Chaplain)
Ph: 09 818 6325
email: bernarddennehy@gmail.com
Polish Community
Rev Edmund Budzilowicz SChr
(See Parnell Parish)
Samoan Community
Catholic Samoan Centre
Malaeola Community Centre
16 Waokauri Pt, Mangere South
Manukau 2022
Ph: 09 275 8657 Fax: 09 275 9657
Rev Iosefo Timu MF
Syro-Malabar community
Fr Joy Thottamkara CSsR
(Epsom parish)
PO Box 29066
Greenwoods Cnr
Auckland 1347
smchaplainaucklandcssr@yahoo.com
Ph: 630 3956
Tamaki Maori Mission Team and Maori Community
Te Unga Waka Marae
7A Clyde St, Epsom
Auckland 1051
Office Ph: 09 520 0861 Fax: 09 522 0716
Tongan Catholic Chaplaincy
8 Vermont St
Ponsonby, Auckland 1011
Ph: 09 378 6599
Fax: 09 378 7627
email: fr.line@tongancatholics.org.nz
Rev Line Folaumoeloa
Vietnamese Community
25 Brows Rd, Manurewa
Manukau 2102
Rev Andrew Huu Le Nguyen
Ph: 09 266 2789
Email: tpslenguyen@yahoo.com
Sr Marie-Benoit RNDM
email: ngockim@paradise.net.nz
