Michael King, God's farthest outpost: a history of Catholics in New Zealand, Viking, Auckland, 1997.
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Bishop Pompallier sent Viard in May 1840 to set up a mission station at Tauranga with the help of a Maori catechist, Romano.
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Born to Claude and Pierette Charlotte (née Rolland), he attended the parish school of Saint-Nizier and then entered the minor seminary at Argentière about 1827, proceeding to the major seminary of Saint-Irénée at Lyon in 1831.
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Bishop Viard College in Porirua to the north of Wellington is named in memory of Bishop Viard's contribution to the Catholic Church and Catholic education in New Zealand.
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