Diocese
By a brief, dated November 26, 1869, Pope Pius IX, withdrew the provinces of Otago and Southland,together with Stewart Island and the adjacent islands, from the diocese of Wellington and erected them as a new diocese, directing that the diocese should be called Dunedin and that the See should be in Dunedin. By another brief, of Dunedin, 1869, His Holiness appointed the Right Rev Patrick Moran, Vicar Apostolic of the Eastern Districts of the Cape of Good Hope, to be the first Bishop of the new See of Dunedin.
