SACRED HEART PARISH, 16 VERMONT STREET, AUCKLAND.

Ponsonby has always been an unusual parish, not least because the Bishop has always lived here, and the parish has really formed around him. But it is unusual in the number of religious houses and services that have been part of it since the earliest days. Above all, it has always been a very friendly parish, where Catholics know one another and work together in sports clubs, guilds, and societies. Starting off as a mix of French. Irish, English and Maori .... it is now a mix of their descendants plus Tongan, Samoan and Korean 

PARISH PRIESTS

1886-1891                     G. M.Lenihan.
1891-1899                     G. Gillan
1900-1906                     Osmund Egan OSB
1906-1914                     M. Edge (Administrator)
1914-1915                     J. Cahill (Administrator)
1915-1915                     W. Murphy (Administrator)
1915-1921                     J. Carran (Administrator)
1921-1922                     G. Wright (Administrator)
1922-1925                     J. Mansfield (Administrator)
1925-1925                     J. Brennan (Administrator)
1925-1932                     W. O'Doherty (Administrator)
1932-1957                     M. Kennedy (Administrator)
1957-1970                     P. Keane (Administrator)
1970 –1973                   E. Gaines
1973-1978                     G. Bartlett
1978-1986                     C. A. Hogan
1986-1999                     Jim  Shannahan
February 1999 -               Monsignor Paul Cronin.