Our Mission
In 2006, a group of about 27 families from Kerala, India, formed the St Mary’s Wellington Kerala Catholic Community under the spiritual leadership of Fr Joseph Akkara, the then parish priest of St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Hamilton.
One of the main goals of forming SKCCW was a desire to preserve and hand on the faith and ancestral traditions of the St Thomas Catholic Christians to the next generation, the most important of these being the celebration of the Divine Liturgy or Qurbana in the Syro-Malabar rite, which is one of the Eastern Catholic rites.
The NZ government’s recruitment drive in health care over the past years has seen a steady influx of Kerala Catholics from India and other parts of the world. Today the SKCCW is a vibrant community of about 250 families in the territory of Wellington Diocese led by Fr. Biju Xavier and Fr. Joy Raphel. Many members of the community are professionals working in Healthcare and Information Technology.
OUR Parish Committee
OUR PARISH UNITS
St Alphonsa
Region: Tawa
Members: Jessil Thomas (Ph: ), Jojo Kuzhikulam (Ph: )
St Chavara
Region:
Members:
St Thomas
Region:
Members:
OUR PRIEST
Fr. Robin Xavier
Fr. Robin Xavier, a priest belonging to the Archdiocese of Imphal. Ordained on 6th of May 2000. He reached New Zealand in 2016. He was working at Reefton for the past two years.
He hails from Kerala, originally belong to archdiocese of Ernakulam – Angamaly . He was born in Kothavara Kerala.