Philip Richardson (born 1958 in Devonport) is a New Zealand

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bishop. Since 2018, he has been the Bishop of Waikato and Taranaki, diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki. Since 2013, he has also been the Senior Bishop of the New Zealand dioceses (Tikanga Pakeha); this makes him one of the three co-equal Archbishops and

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of the

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. From 1992 to 1999, Richardson was warden of Selwyn College at the

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. From his consecration on 10 July 1999ACANZP Lectionary, 2019
(p. 146) until 2008, he was the

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Bishop in Taranaki under the diocesan

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in the then-

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. In 2008, he became co-diocesan Bishop of Taranaki; but since the 2018 vacancy in the See of Waikato, he has been sole diocesan bishop, called Bishop of Waikato and Taranaki.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Richardson, Philip Living people Primates of New Zealand 1958 births 21st-century Anglican archbishops in New Zealand