A Catholic mission to Māori was established by the Mill Hill fathers from London at Matatā in 1886. Some years later they built this church, as well as a school and convent at Matatā. Mill Hill fathers continued to serve the settlement’s Catholic congregation until the amalgamation of the parish with Whakatāne in the 1990s.
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