John Rodgers (New Zealand bishop)

John Hubert Macey Rodgers SM, CMG ( born October 9, 1915 in Wallace Ville, Upper Hutt, New Zealand, † 10 January 1997 ) was Roman Catholic bishop.

Life

John Rodgers joined in 1936 the Congregation of the Marist Fathers in and received on 15 December 1940, the ordination.

Pope Pius XII. appointed him on 29 June 1953 to the Apostolic Vicar of the island of Tonga, while titular bishop of Sbida. He received his episcopal consecration of the Coadjutor Bishop of Wellington, Thomas Peter McKeefry, on 11 February 1954 in St Mary of the Angels in Wellington; Co-consecrators were Archbishop James Michael Liston, Bishop of Auckland, and Edward Michael Joyce, Bishop of Christchurch. He participated in the first, third and fourth sessions of the Second Vatican Council. With the elevation of the Apostolic Vicariate of the Diocese by Pope Paul VI. He was born on June 21, 1966 the first bishop of Tonga. After his abdication in 1972 as a diocesan bishop, he was Titular Bishop of Caput Cilla. A year later he was appointed Paul VI. the second Bishop of Rarotonga. After his resignation, he was appointed on 21 March 1977 in Bishop Auckland and appointed Titular Bishop of Nigizubi. In 1985 he went back to the mission and the second superior of the mission was sui juris Funafuti, but went about his health back to Auckland a year later.