[1] St Peter's Cathedral serves as the seat for the Bishop and Diocese of Waikato, the surrounding region.

[3] The senior priest of the cathedral is called a Dean, currently The Very Rev'd Julian Perkins.

On land at the base of the current cathedral site, a third church was dedicated in 1884 and consecrated in 1887.

The present St Peter's Cathedral, the fourth Anglican church in the succession of buildings, was completed in 1916.

[citation needed] The eight bells of the cathedral were cast by the Mears & Stainbank foundry of Whitechapel, London.