Mission

With the invitation of Most. Rev. Bishop Patrick Dunn, DD, The Priest Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP) has been serving the Latin Mass Community in Auckland since 2016 throughout the Catholic Diocese of Auckland.

Here is the list of Latin Mass offered by The Priestly Fraternity of St Peter in the Diocese of Auckland:

  • St. Paul’s College Chapel
  • St Anne’s Chapel, Te Atatu South
  • Mt St Mary’s Chapel, Titirangi
  • The Holy Name of Mary, Hikurangi

The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) is a Clerical Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical right, that is, a community of Roman Catholic priests who do not take religious vows, but who work together for a common mission in the world. The mission of the Fraternity is two-fold:  first, the formation and sanctification of priests in the cadre of the traditional liturgy of the Roman Rite, and secondly, the pastoral deployment of the priests in the service of the Church.

The Fraternity was founded on July 18, 1988, at the Abbey of Hauterive (Switzerland) by a dozen priests and a score of seminarians.  Shortly after the Fraternity’s foundation and following upon a request by Cardinal Ratzinger, Bishop Joseph Stimpfle of Augsburg, Germany granted the Fraternity a home in Wigratzbad, a Marian shrine in Bavaria that now lodges the Fraternity’s European seminary. Some years later, a second seminary was opened in the USA and it currently resides in Denton, a small town outside Lincoln in the State of Nebraska.

The Fraternity has chosen St. Peter as their special patron in order to express their gratitude, filial love, and loyalty to the Supreme Pontiff. With more than 300 priests and 150 seminarians from 30 countries (including 2 from New Zealand), the Fraternity serves in over 130 dioceses on 5 continents. International headquarters are located in Fribourg, Switzerland and North American headquarters in the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Fraternity seminarians receive training at one of two international seminaries: Priesterseminar Sankt Petrus in Wigratzbad, Germany (for German and French speakers) and Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary in Denton, Nebraska (for English speakers). click here to find out more. 

Abbey of Hauterive