Katorika
1. (loan) (modifier) Catholic.
Kia rongo mai te hunga katoa, ko ahau, ko Rene Pirihi Katorika Rōmana, i te tuatoru o ngā rā o Hepetema,1878 kua oti i a au te mārena i a Te Hauke i te tikanga o te Hāhi, i te Ture Kāwhana, a Epiha Tipuna, tama a Pēne rāua ko Māta, ki a Hiromena Pouaru, tamāhine a Manuera Te Irimata rāua ko Peata Hauuru (TW 14/9/1878:454). / Let everyone know that I, Father Rene, Roman Catholic priest, on the 3rd September,1878, at Te Hauke, according to the Church’s protocols and to government law, married Epiha Tipuna, son of Ben and Martha, to Philomena Pouaru, daughter of Manuel Te Irimata and Beatrix Hauuru.
2. (loan) (noun) Catholic, Catholicism.
Ka hokowhitu ngā pīhopa nunui kua huri ki te Katorika (TP 5/1911:11). / A hundred and forty senior bishops have converted to Catholicism.
Hāhi Katorika
1. (loan) Roman Catholic Church.
Ahakoa a Te Hāpuku kāore i whakaae ki te kaupapa Karaitiana, i tukuna e ia tana iwi, me ana tamariki tonu, kia whakauru atu. Inā hoki kua kite kē ia e whai take tonu ana ngā mihingare o te Hāhi Mihingare me te Hāhi Katorika (TTR 1990:178). / Although Te Hāpuku did not agree with Christianity, he allowed his people and his own children to join because he had seen that the missionaries of the Anglican and Catholic churches were useful.
Katorika Rōmana
1. (loan) (modifier) Roman Catholic.
Āperira 9 – Oheanie, 533 tana, he kaipuke Perehiana, nō Anatawepa, hunga eke mai, ko Pīhopa Pomepariea, ko ētahi minita nō te hāhi Katorika Rōmana, me ērā atu tāngata… (TKM 25/4/1850:2). / April 9 – Oceanic, 533 tons, Belgian ship from Antwerp, with Bishop Pompallier, a number of Roman Catholic clergymen, and other passengers…
Synonyms: Pikopō