Each year Bishop Michael McKenna visits each of the 35 schools in the diocese at least once to ensure there is a "true Catholic spirit" at the schools and on Friday he visited St Mary's at Wellington.
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"It is also important to make personal contact so they know that the bishop is not just a picture on a wall, but comes from a long way away to see and meet [them], and that they know the schools are in our mind and prayers," he said.
During the visit, the Student Representative Council gave a presentation about the sporting, academic, performing and religious opportunities at the school as well as taking Bishop McKenna on a tour of the grounds.
"It is a wonderful school. In the diocese we get some big and very small schools and each has its character and the small schools often, where everyone knows one another, have a very unique spirit," the bishop said.
"I love coming to this parish. I am always given a very warm welcome and I think that there are a lot of great people here."
Principal of St Mary's, Simon Price, said the visits were an important part of religious education at the school.
"Our mission as a school is to be a Catholic school and we do have a faith and spirit," he said.
"I want kids to experience something that's not recognised much in contemporary society at all and focus back on what our core aim as a school is."
