The Catholic Church of St. Mary of the Angels is located at the corner of Buolkott and Willis in the capital of New Zealand - Wellington. The history of the church begins with 1843, when the city began to be held the first Catholic mass on Sundays. Then it was decided to build a Catholic church, and a few months later she was ready.

It was erected on the site of almost modern church of St. Mary of the Angels. Over the next 30 years, the church is constantly expanding, and in 1873 it was decided to build a bigger building to meet the needs of the growing number of parishioners. A few days after this decision, the newspaper "The Independent Wellington" has posted on its pages an article about the event, which for the first time mentioned the name of "Saint Mary of the Angels."

The new church building was designed for 450 people and cost 1500 pounds. The building has been built so that in the future it could expand, and that was done in 1892. After this reconstruction capacity of the church has grown to 550 people.

May 28, 1918 the church was completely destroyed by fire. The damage amounted to 2525 pounds. The next Sunday after the fire was convened a meeting to discuss the issue of restoring the building. Immediately at the meeting it has been collected about 4,000 pounds. Up until October of that year to raise funds for the restoration of the church, and by April 1919 was collected 27 500 pounds. With this money was built the building of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, which can be seen today. The architect was Frederick Jersey Claire, who earned his reputation, built in the late 19th - early 20th centuries, about a hundred churches, mostly in the southern part of the North Island.

In connection with the outbreak of World War II the building was difficult, however, did not stop, and March 26, 1922 at 9:30 am Bishop Redwood inaugurated the Church of St. Mary of the Angels.