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In New Zealand, just under half of the population at the 2013 New Zealand Census〔(Table 28, 2013 Census Data – QuickStats About Culture and Identity – Tables ).〕 declared an affiliation to Christianity. However, regular church attendance is probably closer to 15%. Before European colonisation the religion of the indigenous Māori population was animistic, but the subsequent efforts of missionaries such as Samuel Marsden resulted in most Māori converting to Christianity. New Zealand has no established church although Anglicanism is required to be the religion of the Monarch of New Zealand (who is described as "Defender of ''The'' Faith") and freedom of religion has been protected since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Religious Diversity in New Zealand - Statement on Religious Diversity )〕 More recently the number of adherents of non-Christian religions has increased dramatically, to near 6% in 2013. Hinduism is the largest of the non-Christian religions, making up over 2% of the population. 41.9 percent of New Zealanders who answered the question on religion in the 2013 Census claimed no religious affiliation. == History == The first Christian service conducted in New Zealand waters may have occurred when Father Paul-Antoine Léonard de Villefeix, the Dominican chaplain of the French navigator Jean-François-Marie de Surville celebrated Mass in Doubtless Bay, near Whatuwhiwhi, on Christmas Day in 1769. New Zealand's religious history after the arrival of Europeans saw substantial missionary activity, with Māori generally converting to Christianity voluntarily (compare forced conversions elsewhere in the world). The Church Missionary Society (CMS) sent missionaries to settle in New Zealand. Samuel Marsden of the Church Missionary Society (chaplain in New South Wales), officiated at its first service on Christmas Day in 1814, at Oihi Bay in the Bay of Islands. The CMS founded its first mission at Rangihoua in the Bay of Islands in 1814 and over the next decade established farms and schools in the area. In June 1823 Wesleydale, the first Wesleyan mission in New Zealand, was established at Whangaroa. Jean Baptiste Pompallier was the first Roman Catholic bishop in New Zealand and, with a number of Marist Brothers, he organised the Roman Catholic Church throughout the country. He arrived in New Zealand in 1838 as Vicar Apostolic of Western Oceania, but made Kororareka encompassed the area surrounding what is now known as Pompallier House, Russell as the centre of his mission. In 1892 the New Zealand Church Mission Society (NZCMS) formed in a Nelson church hall and the first New Zealand missionaries were sent overseas soon after. The religious climate of early New Zealand was influenced by "voluntarism". Though in Britain the Anglican Church was an established state church, by the middle of the 19th century even the Anglicans themselves sometimes doubted this arrangement, while the other major denominations of the new colony (Presbyterians, Methodist and Catholics, for example) obviously preferred that the local set up allowed for all their groups.〔''New Zealand Historical Atlas'' (1997) McKinnon, Malcolm (Editor); David Bateman, Plate 70〕 Waves of new immigrants brought their particular (usually Christian) faiths with them. Initial denominational distribution very much reflected the fact that local immigrant communities started small and often came from comparatively small regions in the origin countries in Great Britain. As a result, by the time of the 1921 census, no uniform distribution existed amongst non-Māori Christians, with Presbyterians as the dominant group in Otago and Southland, Anglicans in the Far North, the East Cape and various other areas including Banks Peninsula, while Methodists flourished mainly in Taranaki and the Manawatu. Catholicism meanwhile was the dominant religion on the West Coast with its many mining concerns, and in Central Otago.〔 The Catholic Church, while not particularly dominant in terms of pure numbers, became especially known throughout the country in the early and middle 20th century for its strong stance on education, establishing large numbers of schools.〔 Immigration since 1991 has resulted in religions like Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism growing rapidly. However, a large portion of the growth of these religions has occurred in Auckland.〔http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10837744〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Religion in New Zealand」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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