Chanel College, Masterton is a Catholic secondary school situated in

Masterton Masterton ( mi, Whakaoriori), a large town in the Greater Wellington Region of New Zealand, operates as the seat of the Masterton District (a territorial authority or local-government district). It is the largest town in the Wairarapa, a r ...

, New Zealand. The school is named after

St Peter Chanel Peter Chanel (12 July 1803 – 28 April 1841), born Pierre Louis Marie Chanel, was a Catholic priest, missionary, and martyr. Chanel was a member of the Society of Mary or "Marists" and was sent as a missionary to Oceania. He arrived on the is ...

, who was a French Marist priest killed on the Pacific island of Futuna in 1841. The school was established in 1978. It resulted from the amalgamation of two schools, St Joseph's College for Boys (founded in 1945) operated by the

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and St Bride's College for Girls which had been established in 1898 by the

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. The College, which is located on the old St Joseph's College site, became an Integrated School in November 1981. It is owned by the Wellington Archdiocese with the Archbishop of Wellington being named as its proprietor in the college's integration agreement with the New Zealand Government.Claire Hills.

Alumni/ae

Ex-pupils of Chanel College or its predecessor schools, St Bride's College and St Joseph's College. *

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in 1986 and 1993 *

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; Ecclesiastical Superior of the Roman Catholic Mission Sui Iuris of Tokelau (1992–2011) * Liz Perry (born 1987), New Zealand

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Notes

Sources

* Claire Hills (ed), ''The story of Catholic education in the Wairarapa: 50th Jubilee, 25–27 August 1995: St. Joseph's College, Chanel College'', St. Joseph's Golden Jubilee Committee, Masterton, New Zealand 1995. * Helena M Fouhy, ''One love, many faces : Brigidines in New Zealand, 1898–1998'', Congregation of St Brigid, Masterton 1998. * Pat Gallagher, ''The Marist Brothers in New Zealand Fiji & Samoa 1876–1976'', New Zealand Marist Brothers' Trust Board, Tuakau, 1976. * Michael King, ''God's farthest outpost : a history of Catholics in New Zealand'', Viking, Auckland 1997. * Michael O'Meeghan S.M., ''Steadfast in hope : the story of the Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington 1850–2000'', Dunmore press, Palmerston North, 2003. Educational institutions established in 1978 Catholic secondary schools in the Wellington Region Masterton Schools in the Wairarapa 1978 establishments in New Zealand {{NewZealand-school-stub