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Te Pīhopatanga O Te Waipounamu
''Te Pīhopatanga o Te Waipounamu'' is an episcopal polity or diocese of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. Literally, the diocese is the Anglican bishopric of the South Island of Aotearoa, New Zealand; also known as the synod (or in ). ''Te Pīhopatanga'' encompasses the South Island in its entirety and also Stewart Island / Rakiura and the Chatham Islands. Its headquarters are based at premises at 290 Ferry Road, Christchurch. According to the 2001 census there were approximately 15,000 Māori people, Māori Anglicans within this area. ''Te Waipounamu'' is one of five ''pīhopatanga'', or episcopal units, that comprise ''Te Pīhopatanga o Aotearoa'', the Māori Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Ministry There are seven Ministry units in ''Te Waiponamu'': * Archdeaconry of Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka: Picton and Nelson * Archdeaconry of Nelson, New Zealand, Whakatu: Blenheim * Archdeaconry of Motueka: Motueka * Archdeaconry of Ngāi Tahu, Te Tai Poutin ...
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Lang
Lang may refer to: *Lang (surname), a surname of independent Germanic or Chinese origin Places * Lang Island (Antarctica), East Antarctica * Lang Nunatak, Antarctica * Lang Sound, Antarctica * Lang Park, a stadium in Brisbane, Australia * Lang, New South Wales, a locality in Australia * Division of Lang, a former Australian electoral division. * Electoral district of Sydney-Lang, a former New South Wales electoral division. * Lang, Austria, a town in Leibniz, Styria, Austria * Lang, Saskatchewan, a Canadian village * Lang Island, Sunda Strait, Indonesia * Lang, Iran, a village in Gilan Province, Iran * Lang Varkshi, Khuzestan Province, Iran * Lang Glacier, Bernese Alps, Valais, Switzerland * Lang Suan District, southern Thailand * Lang County, or Nang County, Tibet * Lang, Georgia, United States * Lang Chánh District, Vietnam * Lang Trang, a cave formation located in Vietnam Computing *S-Lang, a programming language created in 1992 *LANG, environment variable in POSIX standard t ...
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Stewart Island / Rakiura
Stewart Island (, 'Aurora, glowing skies', officially Stewart Island / Rakiura, formerly New Leinster) is New Zealand's third-largest island, located south of the South Island, across Foveaux Strait. It is a roughly triangular island with a land area of . Its coastline is indented by Paterson Inlet (east), Port Pegasus (south), and Mason Bay (west). The island is generally hilly (rising to at Mount Anglem) and densely forested. Flightless Birds of New Zealand, birds, including penguins, thrive because there are few introduced predators. Almost all the island is owned by the New Zealand government, and over 80 percent of the island forms Rakiura National Park. Stewart Island's economy depends on fishing and summer tourism in New Zealand, tourism. Its permanent population was recorded at 408 people in the 2018 New Zealand census, 2018 census. Most residents live in the settlement of Oban, New Zealand, Oban on the eastern side of the island. Ferries connect Oban to Bluff, ...
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Anglican Dioceses In New Zealand
Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the largest branches of Christianity, with around 110 million adherents worldwide . Most are members of national or regional ecclesiastical provinces of the international Anglican Communion, one of the largest Christian bodies in the world, and the world's third-largest Christian communion. When united churches in the Anglican Communion and the breakaway Continuing Anglican movement were not counted, there were an estimated 97.4 million Anglicans worldwide in 2020. Adherents of Anglicanism are called ''Anglicans''; they are also called ''Episcopalians'' in some countries. The provinces within the Anglican Communion are in full communion with the See of Canterbury and thus with the archbishop of Can ...
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