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Anglican Diocese Of Dunedin
The Diocese of Dunedin is one of the thirteen dioceses and ''hui amorangi'' (Māori bishoprics) of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The diocese covers the same area as the provinces of Otago and Southland in the South Island of New Zealand. Area 65,990 km2, population 272,541 (2001). Anglicans are traditionally the third largest religious group in Otago and Southland after Presbyterians and Roman Catholics. Description of arms: Gules between a cross saltire argent, four starts argent on the fess point a Bible. In 1814 the Gospel first preached in Aotearoa at Oihi, Northland by Anglican missionary Samuel Marsden, in 1841 George Selwyn consecrated and appointed Bishop of New Zealand (including Polynesia and Melanesia). In 1843 the first Anglican missionaries to come to Southland and Otago were Tamihana Te Rauparaha and Matene Te Whiwhi. In 1852 Rev. John Fenton arrives in Dunedin; he was the first Anglican priest to settle south of Lyttleton. In 185 ...
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Penny Jamieson
Penelope Ann Bansall Jamieson (née Allen; born 21 June 1942) is a retired Anglican bishop. She was the seventh Bishop of Dunedin in the Anglican Church of New Zealand from 1989 until her retirement in 2004. Jamieson was the second woman in the world, after Barbara Harris, to hold the position of bishop in the Anglican Communion and the first to be elected a diocesan bishop. Early life Born in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire, England, in 1942, Jamieson attended Wycombe High School and studied linguistics at the University of Edinburgh before moving to New Zealand, her husband's country of birth. She worked at the Wellington Inner City Mission while completing her doctoral thesis at Victoria University. Ordained ministry In 1982, she was ordained a deacon and then a priest in 1983. She was assistant curate of St James' Lower Hutt from 1982 to 1985. In 1985, she was vicar of Karori West with Mākara in the Diocese of Wellington. In 1990 she was elected to head the country ...
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Translation (ecclesiastical)
Translation is the transfer of a bishop from one episcopal see to another. The word is from the Latin ', meaning "carry across" (another religious meaning of the term is the translation of relics). This can be *From suffragan bishop status to diocesan bishop *From coadjutor bishop to diocesan bishop *From one country's episcopate to another *From diocesan bishop to archbishop In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdi ... References Anglicanism Episcopacy in the Catholic Church Christian terminology {{christianity-stub ...
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Allen Johnston
Allen Howard Johnston (2 September 1912 - 22 February 2002) was an Anglican bishop. Johnston was born in Auckland, New Zealand. He was educated at Seddon Memorial Technical College and St John's College, Auckland before beginning his ordained ministry with a curacy at St Mark's Remuera. He then had incumbencies at Dargaville, Northern Wairoa and Otahuhu. In 1949 he became Archdeacon of Waimate, a position he held for four years before being appointed the Bishop of Dunedin. He was consecrated a bishop on 24 February 1953. He was translated to be Bishop of Waikato in 1969 and was additionally elected Archbishop of New Zealand in 1972. He served as a member of the Royal Commission to Inquire into and Report upon the Circumstances of the Convictions of Arthur Allan Thomas for the Murders of David Harvey Crewe and Jeanette Lenore Crewe. In the 1978 New Year Honours, Johnston was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George The Most Distinguished Order of ...
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William Fitchett
William Alfred Robertson Fitchett (6 February 1872 – 15 August 1952) was an Anglican bishop in New Zealand. He was the Bishop of Dunedin from 1934 to 1952. Fitchett was born in Christchurch and his father was the Very Reverend Alfred Robertson Fitchett CMG of Dunedin. He was educated at Otago Boys' High School and Selwyn College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1901, he was curate then priest in charge of St Thomas' Wellington before being vicar of Dunstan and Roslyn. In 1915 he became the Archdeacon of Dunedin, a post he held for 19 years before being appointed its bishop."New Bishop of Dunedin", ''The Times'', 22 February 1934, p. 13. Fitchett was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal The King George V Silver Jubilee Medal is a commemorative medal, instituted to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the accession of King George V. Issue This medal was awarded as a personal souvenir by King George V to commemorate his Silver J ... in 1935. References 18 ...
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Isaac Richards (bishop)
Isaac Richards (11 February 1859 – 10 May 1936) was an Anglican bishop in New Zealand from 1920 to 1934. Life and church career Richards was born in Tavistock, Devon, and educated at Wesleyan College, Taunton, and Exeter College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1878, graduating B.A. in 1882, and M.A. in 1885. He was ordained in 1882. He became curate of St Paul's, Truro, in 1883, and married Gertrude Oxland in 1885. They migrated to New Zealand in 1886 when he became vicar of St Mark's, Remuera, in Auckland. In 1895 he became Warden of Selwyn College in Dunedin, and in 1900, vicar of Tuapeka in Central Otago. He was canon of St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin, and archdeacon successively of Queenstown and of Invercargill. He became Bishop of Dunedin in 1920, holding the position until he retired owing to ill-health in 1934. He and his wife had a daughter and four sons, two of whom were killed at Gallipoli in 1915. Cricketing career While he was a vicar in Auckland, Richards play ...
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Primate Of New Zealand
Primate of New Zealand is a title held by a bishop who leads the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. Since 2006, the Senior Bishop of each '' tikanga'' (Māori, Pākehā, Pasefika) serves automatically as one of three co-equal Primates-and-Archbishops. Previously, one of these three would be Presiding Bishop and the other two Co-Presiding Bishops; and before that there was only one Primate. Bishop and Metropolitan George Selwyn was consecrated Bishop of New Zealand on 17 October 1841: he was the sole bishop over a very large territory, including all New Zealand and very many South Pacific islands. In his lifetime, as the Anglican ministry in New Zealand grew, that one diocese was divided several times: by letters patent dated 22 September 1858, Selwyn was made metropolitan bishop over the other dioceses and called Bishop of New Zealand and Metropolitan. By 1868, New Zealand had seven dioceses, Selwyn had come to be referred to as "the Primate", and the General ...
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Samuel Nevill
Samuel Tarratt Nevill (13 May 183729 October 1921), was the first Anglican Bishop Anglican Diocese of Dunedin, of Dunedin, before becoming Primate of New Zealand. Life A Nevill baronets#Nevill baronets, of Grove (1675), scion of the House of Neville, ancient Nevilles, he was educated at Nottingham High School, before attending St Aidan's College, Birkenhead, and briefly Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained in 1860 and then went up to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. (second-class Natural Science Tripos) in 1865, proceeding Master of Arts (Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin), M.A. in 1868, and received D.D. in 1871. Ordained in 1860 as Curate of St Mark's Church, Scarisbrick, St Mark's, Scarisbrick, he then became Rector (ecclesiastical), Rector of Shelton, Staffordshire, where he was Incumbent (ecclesiastical), incumbent until being elevated to the episcopate. Whilst there, Nevill also held a Lecturer, certificate of the Science and Art Department, South Kensing ...
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Dunedin Controversy
Henry Lascelles Jenner (6 June 182018 September 1898) was a nineteenth century Anglican bishop. Education and ministry Jenner was born in Chislehurst, West Kent educated at Harrow and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; and ordained deacon in 1843 and priest in 1844. After a curacy in Cornwall, he became Rector of Preston-next-Wingham, East Kent and died in post. Dunedin controversy In 1866, at the request of George Selwyn, the Primate of New Zealand, Charles Longley, the Archbishop of Canterbury, selected Jenner in anticipation of the creation of the See and Diocese of Dunedin from part of the Diocese of Christchurch. Jenner was consecrated in 1866 by royal licence as "Bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland in our colony of New Zealand", together with Andrew Suter (as second Bishop of Nelson) by Longley; Archibald Tait, Bishop of London (later Archbishop of Canterbury); and William Thomson, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol on 24 August 1866 at Canterbury Cathedral. ...
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Henry Jenner (bishop)
Henry Lascelles Jenner (6 June 182018 September 1898) was a nineteenth century Anglican bishop. Education and ministry Jenner was born in Chislehurst, West Kent educated at Harrow and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; and ordained deacon in 1843 and priest in 1844. After a curacy in Cornwall, he became Rector of Preston-next-Wingham, East Kent and died in post. Dunedin controversy In 1866, at the request of George Selwyn, the Primate of New Zealand, Charles Longley, the Archbishop of Canterbury, selected Jenner in anticipation of the creation of the See and Diocese of Dunedin from part of the Diocese of Christchurch. Jenner was consecrated in 1866 by royal licence as "Bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland in our colony of New Zealand", together with Andrew Suter (as second Bishop of Nelson) by Longley; Archibald Tait, Bishop of London (later Archbishop of Canterbury); and William Thomson, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol on 24 August 1866 at Canterbury Cathedral. ...
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Steven Benford
Steven Benford, (born 14 August 1961) is the tenth Anglican Bishop of Dunedin, New Zealand Dunedin ( ; mi, Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region. Its name comes from , the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. Th ..., ordained and installed on 22 September 2017. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Benford, Steve Anglican bishops of Dunedin British anaesthetists 1961 births Living people ...
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Kelvin Wright
Kelvin Peter Wright (born 1952) was the ninth Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Dunedin in Dunedin, New Zealand. Bishop Kelvin retired on Easter Monday 2017. Wright was educated at St John's College, Auckland, the University of Canterbury, the University of Otago and the San Francisco Theological Seminary. He was ordained deacon in 1979, priest in 1980 and bishop on 27 February 2010.ACANZP Lectionary, 2019
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