{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{for|the Canadian politician and mayor of Gatineau, Quebec|John-R. Luck}}{{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | name = John Luck | birth_name = John Edmund Luck | honorific_suffix = OSB | title = Bishop of Auckland | church = Catholic Church | diocese = Diocese of Auckland | term = 14 July 1882 – 23 January 1896 | predecessor = Walter Steins Bisschop | successor = George Lenihan | ordination = 1865 | consecration = 13 August 1882 | consecrated_by = Henry Edward Manning | birth_date = {{birth year|1840}} | birth_place = Peckham, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | death_date = {{death year and age|1896|1840}} }} '''John Edmund Luck''' (1840–1896) OSB was the fourth Catholic bishop of Auckland, New Zealand (1882–1896).<ref name="Laracy">{{DNZB|Laracy|Hugh|2l19|Luck, John Edmund |5 April 2011}}</ref> He was born in England.

Luck was stationed in St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate before becoming the Bishop of Auckland in August 1882.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jones |first1=Martin |title=St Benedict's Church and Presbytery Complex (Catholic) |url=https://www.heritage.org.nz/list-details/640/640 |website=Heritage New Zealand |date=6 June 2013}}</ref>

Luck Crescent in Monte Cecilia Park, Hillsborough, Auckland was named in his honour in 1982.<ref name="Roskill">{{citeq|Q116775081|page=156}}</ref>

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==References/Sources== {{refbegin}} * E.R. Simmons, ''A Brief History of the Catholic Church in New Zealand'', Catholic Publication Centre, Auckland, 1978. * E.R. Simmons, ''In Cruce Salus, A History of the Diocese of Auckland 1848 – 1980'', Catholic Publication Centre, Auckland 1982. * [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bluck.html ''Bishop John Edmund Luck OSB'', Catholic Hierarchy website] (retrieved 12 February 2011) {{refend}}

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