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New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

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Palmerston North Palmerston North (; mi, Te Papa-i-Oea, known colloquially as Palmy) is a city in the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Manawatū-Whanganui region. Located in the eastern Manawatu Plains, the city is near the north bank of the ...

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Muru Walters Muru Walters (born 16 January 1935) is a New Zealand author, master carver, broadcaster, artist, former rugby union player and Māori people, Māori Anglican bishop. He was the first Pīhopa (bishop) of Te Pīhopatanga o Te Upoko o Te Ika from hi ...

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Māori Māori or Maori can refer to: Relating to the Māori people * Māori people of New Zealand, or members of that group * Māori language, the language of the Māori people of New Zealand * Māori culture * Cook Islanders, the Māori people of the C ...

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Anglican Communion The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members within the Church of England and other ...

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diocese In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associa ...

of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. Literally, the diocese is the Anglican

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of ''the head of the fish'' in the lower and western regions of the North Island of Aotearoa,

; also known as the synod (or in mi, Te Hui Amorangi). According to a 2001 census, there were approximately 14,000 Maori Anglicans living in these regions. ''Te Manawa o Te Wheke'' is one of five ''pīhopatanga'', or episcopal units, that comprise ''

Te Pīhopatanga o Aotearoa Te Pīhopatanga o Aotearoa is home to Māori Anglicans across Aotearoa (New Zealand), and one of the three Tikanga (cultural streams) of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The first Māori Bishop was appointed in 1928, and ...

'', the

Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Ministry

There are several ''

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'', or ministry units, within ''Te Pīhopatanga o Te Upoko o Te Ika''. These are: * Taranaki-ki-te-Tonga * Taranaki * Wainui-a-rua * Aotea-Kurahaupo * Manawatu-Rangitikei * Poneke * Te Awakairangi * Whitireia

Bishops

The first

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, Te Pīhopa o Te Upoko o Te Ika, was

, from his consecration on 7 March 1992 until his retirement in 2018ACANZP Lectionary, 2019
(p. 145) and the administrator manager is Teri-Rori Kirkwood. On 4 May 2019, it was announced that Wai Quayle, Archdeacon of Wairarapa (in Te Pīhopatanga), was to become the next Pīhopa; she took her See with her consecration as a bishop on 12 September at Masterton by Don Tamihere, Archbishop and

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-equ ...

, Te Pīhopa o Aotearoa and Te Pīhopa o Te Tairāwhiti (with his fellow-Primates

Philip Richardson Sir Philip Wigham Richardson, 1st Baronet, (26 January 1865 – 23 November 1953) was a British sport shooter and Conservative politician. He was the first son of John Wigham Richardson, the shipbuilder from Newcastle upon Tyne. He also compe ...

and Fereimi Cama). Quayle was made deacon in 2013 and ordained priest in 2014, by Walters in Masteron.

References

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