It appears that academic records from Holy Name Seminary were destroyed (see Peter Norris book as source) and it is unclear whether any records from or about the Seminary have survived. If they have, it is possible that they are held by the Catholic Diocese of Christchurch Archives.
Catholic Seminary/Secondary School From 1947-1959 operated as a Minor Seminary taking secondary school aged boys who wished to become priests later in life; From 1959 onwards, stopped accepting school aged children and operated as a Major Seminary taking men training to be priests who had finished school. Gender and age: male; 1947-1954: Secondary school aged boys only ; 1954-1959: Secondary school aged boys and also men training to become priests 1959 onwards: Men only. Capacity: 1947: 40 boys aged 13-14 Controlling organisation: The Society of Jesus - Jesuit Order (Catholic) staffed the seminary along with five Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny (Catholic). Property potentially owned by Catholic Diocese of Christchurch. Operational period: Opened February 1947 as a Minor Seminary Transitioned to a Major Seminary and no longer had any school aged children by 1959. Holy Name Seminary assimilated into Holy Cross Seminary/College, Mosgiel in 1979. From Heritage NZ page: "In effect Holy Name provided a secondary education for boys who intended to become priests, covering a gap in Catholic education that had occurred since the major seminary, Holy Cross at Mosgiel, stopped taking school age students in 1932. It was staffed by Fathers from the Society of Jesus in Australia and the domestic needs of the seminary were tended to by five Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny, who arrived from Ireland in 1948. It opened with 40 small boys and its roll rose to between 70 and 90 pupils, although only about a third of these would go on to become priests."
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