Villa Maria College, Christchurch

Villa Maria College
Location
21 Peer St,
Christchurch,
New Zealand
Information
Type Integrated secondary (year 7-13) single sex, girls.
Established 1918
Ministry of Education Institution no. 326
Principal Mary Lynch
School roll 795 (2011)
Socio-economic decile 9
Website villa.school.nz

Villa Maria College, Christchurch, New Zealand was opened on 18 February 1918 with 14 pupils. It was founded by the Sisters of Mercy and served as a parish school when boys were admitted in 1921. From 1941 the school reverted to being a girl's college. Villa Maria College is a day school but it also had boarders between 1935 and 1979. In 1981, the college was integrated in to the New Zealand state school system under the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act 1975 but its proprietors remain the Sisters of Mercy (through the Sisters of Mercy Trust Board).

Sister Pauline Margaret O'Regan

In the 2001 Birthday Honours, former principal, Sister Pauline Margaret O'Regan was made a Dame.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ "Reinstating titular honours - what the honourees are saying". nzherald.co.nz. 2011 [last update]. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10560662. Retrieved June 19, 2011. "former principal" 
  2. ^ "DPMC - New Zealand Honours". dpmc.govt.nz. 2011 [last update]. http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/lists/list.asp?id=13. Retrieved 19 June 2011. 

Sources

  • Villa Maria College golden jubilee, 1918-1968 Christchurch, 1968.
  • Mary Declan Burke RSM, Mercy through the years : the centennial history of the Sisters of Mercy, Christchurch Diocese, 1878-1978, Sisters of Mercy Trust Board, Christchurch, 1978.
  • Michael O'Meeghan S.M., Held firm by faith : a history of the Catholic Diocese of Christchurch, 1840-1987, Catholic Diocese of Christchurch, Christchurch, 1988.
  • Villa Maria College, seventy-five years, 1918-1993, Villa Maria College, Christchurch, 1993.
  • Michael King, God's farthest outpost : a history of Catholics in New Zealand, Viking, Auckland 1997.