(noun) NZ Ministry of Education National Certificate in Educational Achievement.

(noun) Catholic National Centre for Religious Studies, an agency within ‘Te Kupenga – Catholic Leadership Institute’ of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference.

(noun) second part of the Bible: Gospels, Acts, Epistles and Revelation, written in the 1st century CE regarding Jesus’ life, death, resurrection and mission, and response by his first followers.

The New Testament is the second of the two sections of the Christian Bible or Sacred Scriptures, the first being the Old Testament. It is a collection of 27 books written between about 50 A.D. and the early part of the second century A.D. These writings passed through several stages of editing before reaching their final form around 200 A.D. While the 27 books of the New Testament have been generally accepted by the church since the end of the fourth century, the canon of scripture was declared definitively by the Council of Trent in 1546. The four gospels are the heart of the New Testament, “because they are our principal source for the life and teaching of the Incarnate Word our Saviour”. (The Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation N.18)

(verb) to sit, stay, remain, settle, dwell, live, inhabit, reside, occupy.

(noun) New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference.

(noun) New Zealand Catholic Education Office.