Paul-Antoine Léonard de Villefeix

De Surville remained two weeks in Doubtless Bay, near Whatuwhiwhi, where Villefeix celebrated the first Mass in New Zealand waters on Christmas Day 1769.

[4] In December 1769 the ship arrived in Doubtless Bay and a landing was made at Rangiaohia on the Karikari Peninsula where Father Villefeix went ashore, unaccompanied by fellow crew members, and wandered through one of the villages.

Villefeix is also recorded as leading prayers for the sick on Christmas Eve and for burials in Doubtless Bay.

Seventeen months later, in 1771, while the Saint Jean-Baptiste was being held by Spanish authorities in Callao, Surville's nephew and Villefeix left the ship to go goldmining up a river.

[4] Villefeix returned to France and he too became parish priest at his home town, Étouars, where he died in 1780, aged 52.