{{Short description|Secondary school in New Zealand}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=April 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}} {{Infobox school | name = Bishop Viard College | seal_image = viard crest.jpg | motto = Truth is Light | established = 1968; {{years ago|1968}} years ago | principal = Chris Theobald | address = 20 Kenepuru Drive,<br>Porirua,<br>New Zealand | coordinates = {{coord|-41.1404|174.8393|type:edu_region:NZ-WGN|display=inline,title}} | type = State integrated, Co-educational, Secondary Years 7–13 | enrollment = {{NZ school roll data|256|y||y}} <small>({{NZ school roll data|||y}})</small> | decile = 1C<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.minedu.govt.nz/~/media/MinEdu/Files/EducationSectors/PrimarySecondary/SchoolOpsResourcing/OperationalFundingDeciles/DecileChanges_20142015.xls |title= Decile Change 2014 to 2015 for State & State Integrated Schools |date= 29 November 2013 |publisher= Ministry of Education |accessdate= 12 February 2015 |archive-date= 24 January 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150124000031/http://www.minedu.govt.nz/~/media/MinEdu/Files/EducationSectors/PrimarySecondary/SchoolOpsResourcing/OperationalFundingDeciles/DecileChanges_20142015.xls |url-status= dead }}</ref> | MOE = 256 | website = [http://www.viard.school.nz/ viard.school.nz] }}
'''Bishop Viard College''', also known as '''Viard College''' or '''BVC''', is a coeducational, [[State-integrated school|integrated]], secondary school (years 7–13) located in [[Kenepuru]], [[Porirua]], [[New Zealand]].
==History== The college was founded in 1968 by Cardinal [[Peter McKeefry]], Archbishop of [[Wellington]], and was staffed by the [[Assumptionist Fathers]] and the [[Brigidine Sisters]]. The school was named after [[Philippe Viard]], the first Catholic Bishop of Wellington. Originally the school consisted of two institutions (for boys and girls) on the same site, however it became a single co-educational unit in 1975.
The school celebrated its 50th Jubilee on Labour weekend, 19–21 October 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.viard.school.nz/ |title=BVC redirect |access-date=24 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724202131/http://www.viard.school.nz/ |archive-date=24 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Notable alumni== {{main category | People educated at Bishop Viard College}} * [[Brent Anderson (rugby union)|Brent Anderson]] – rugby union player<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/70107930/bishop-viard-rugby-reunion-recalls-glory-days|title=Bishop Viard rugby reunion recalls glory days|date=9 July 2015}}</ref> * [[Bernard Cadogan]] – poet, philosopher, and historian<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.treasury.govt.nz/sites/default/files/2011-04/tgls-cadogan.pdf|title=Guest Lecturer Dr. Bernard Cadogan "Treaty and Method: New Zealand's Treaty Constitution and the Interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi"|date=April 2011}}</ref> * [[Joe Filemu]] – [[rugby union]] player<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rugbyhistory.co.nz/player/john-a-filemu|title=John A Filemu|work=New Zealand Rugby History}}</ref> * [[Izzy Ford]] – local-body politician and rugby union player * [[Faifili Levave]] – rugby union player * [[Tom Maiava]] (born 1999) - [[rugby sevens]] player for Samoa. * [[Vince Mellars]] – [[rugby league]] and rugby union player * [[Anthony Perenise]] – rugby union player * [[John Schwalger]] – rugby union player
==Notes== {{reflist}}
==Sources== {{refbegin|2}} * Lillian G. Keys, ''Philip Viard, Bishop of Wellington'', Pegasus Press, Christchurch, 1968. * Ernest Richard Simmons, ''Brief history of the Catholic Church in New Zealand'', Catholic Publications Centre, Auckland, 1978. * Michael King, ''God's farthest outpost : a history of Catholics in New Zealand'', Viking, Auckland 1997. * Michael O'Meeghan S.M., ''Steadfast in hope : the story of the Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington 1850–2000'', Dunmore press, Palmerston North, 2003. * {{DNZB|Broadbent|John V|1v1|Viard, Philippe Joseph 1809–1872 Priest, missionary, bishop|5 April 2011}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20020902130302/http://www.tki.org.nz/e/schools/display_school_info.php?school_id=256 Te Kete Ipurangi] {{refend}}
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110724202131/http://www.viard.school.nz/ School website]
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