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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

The Right Rev. Monsignor Mackay

The Right Rev. Monsignor Mackay , Dean of Otago, who is in charge of the Oamaru district, was born in 1841, in Banffshire, Scotland. He was educated at Blair's College, Aberdeen, at Douay, in the North of France, and at the Grand Seminary of St. Sulspice, Paris. Dean Mackay was ordained in Paris in 1868, and arrived in Port Chalmers in bad health at Christmas, 1872, by the ship “Christian McCausland.” After a few months, during which his health greatly improved, Dean Mackay was appointed to the charge of Queenstown and the Wakatipu goldfields,
Right Rev. Monsignor Mackay.

Right Rev. Monsignor Mackay.

page 519 where he continued for seventeen years. On the death of Monsignor Coleman in 1890 he was appointed to the Oamaru district.