There was a man named John who heard Jesus and became his disciple. As an apostle he too became a bearer of the Gospel.
There was a man named Polycarp who heard John and he became a disciple of Jesus Christ. As Bishop of Smyrna, in modern day Turkey, he became a bearer of the Gospel.
There was a man named Ireneaus who heard Polycarp and he became a disciple of Jesus Christ. As Bishop of Lyon, in modern day France, he became a bearer of the Gospel and was martyred in the year 202.
1600 years after Irenaeus was martyred, in 1802, a child was born, Jean-Baptiste Pompallier. and he too became a disciple of Jesus. He was ordained a priest in 1829 at the Cathedral of St John the Baptist and St Stephen in Lyon and was ordained bishop in 1836 in Rome and became a bearer of the Gospel as the first Bishop for Western Oceania and New Zealand.
We are the fruits of this whakapapa of faith.
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| The Cathedral of Sts John the Baptist and Stephen, Lyon |
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| St Stephen |
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| St John the Baptist |
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| The cathedral also has the Lyon Astronomical Clock from the 14th century. |
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| The remains of the previous Cathedral built in 450. |
St John the Baptist, pray for us
St John the Evangelist, pray for us
St Stephen, pray for us
St Polycarp, pray for us
St Irenaeus, pray for us
All holy men and women, pray for us
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