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| first_incumbent   = [[Henry Jenner (bishop)|Henry Jenner]]<br/>(''disputed'')
| date              = 1866
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The '''Diocese of Dunedin''' is one of the thirteen [[diocese]]s and ''hui amorangi'' ([[Māori language|Māori]] [[bishoprics]]) of the [[Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia]].<ref>{{cite web | author = Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia | title = About | url = http://www.anglican.org.nz/About | access-date = 8 September 2011 }}</ref>

The diocese covers the same area as the provinces of [[Otago Province|Otago]] and [[Southland Province|Southland]] in the [[South Island]] of [[New Zealand]]; or approximately {{convert|65990|km2|mi2}}, with a population 272,541 (in 2001). Anglicans are traditionally the third largest religious group in Otago and Southland after Presbyterians and Roman Catholics.

The Bishop of Dunedin's cathedra is at [[St.&nbsp;Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin]].

== Coat of arms ==
[https://hail.to/diocese-of-dunedin/article/LWXKHfv The Diocesan Seal] (based on an 1871 seal of Bishop Nevill) was authorised by Synod in 1921 and commissioned on 15 October 1931. An official certificate was issued in 1949 to Bishop Fitchett confirming the crest i.e., a Gules, a Saltire between four Mullets Argent surrounded by an open Bible”. Gules describes a darker shade of red, mullet means a straight sided star with “argent” being the white border to the star. The stars most likely refer to the Southern Cross. Saltire refers to the Saint Andrew’s Cross or the crux decussata, a heraldic symbol in the form of a diagonal cross. The word comes from the Middle French sautoir, Medieval Latin saltatorial.

== History ==
{{For|the controversy surrounding the appointment of Henry Jenner in 1866|Dunedin controversy}}
In 1814, the Gospel first preached in Aotearoa at Oihi, Northland by Anglican missionary [[Samuel Marsden]], in 1841 [[George Augustus Selwyn|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 [[Lyttelton, New Zealand|Lyttelton]]. In 1856 when the Diocese of New Zealand was subdivided, Southland and Otago were included in the [[Anglican Diocese of Christchurch|Diocese of Christchurch]]. In 1866 [[Henry Lascelles Jenner]] selected and ordained by the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] “into the office of a Bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland in the colony of New Zealand”, with the intention that he be Bishop of Dunedin. In 1869 the Diocese of Dunedin formed from the Diocese of Christchurch. The first meeting of Dunedin's synod rejected Jenner's claim to the See
1871	Samuel Nevill enthroned as 1st bishop of Dunedin.

The Diocese has declined in numbers in the 21st Century, leading to the closing and selling of many Churches, including the historic church in Clyde,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/central-otago/trust-disappointed-decision-sell-church|title = Trust disappointed by decision to sell church|date = 6 October 2020}}</ref> and the largest church in Invercargill,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/109024987/last-service-held-at-st-johns-anglican-church|title=Last service held at St John's Anglican Church|date=2 December 2018}}</ref> which among others, were sold against the wishes of the local communities. It is currently exploring new ways of connecting with remote and rural communities through a rural chaplaincy initiative.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.calledsouth.org.nz/ministry-resources/rural-chaplaincy/|title=Rural Chaplaincy &#124; Anglican Diocese of Dunedin}}</ref>

== Parishes and churchmanship ==
The diocese has a total of 30 parishes, deaneries, Cathedral District and local churches. The adaption of "Local Shared Ministry" has been a strategy by which local people are ordained to serve in a parish which cannot afford to support full-time professional clergy.

The diocese includes [[Anglo-Catholic]], broad and [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical]] parishes.

==List of bishops==
In 1990, the diocese made history by electing [[Penny Jamieson]] as their seventh bishop. Jamieson was the first woman to become a diocesan bishop in the Anglican Communion and only the second woman consecrated bishop, the first being Bishop [[Barbara Harris (bishop)|Barbara Harris]]. The eighth bishop was the Right Revd [[George Connor (bishop)|George Connor]], who became Bishop of Dunedin in 2005. The diocese gained some publicity in 2006 when (with the support of the Diocesan Standing Committee), Connor [[ordained]] an openly [[gay]] man to the diaconate. A moratorium on ordinations in the diocese was declared until the New Zealand church achieved a common mind on the full inclusion of homosexual persons at every level of ministry in the church. Connor retired in November 2009. The ninth Bishop of Dunedin, [[Kelvin Wright]], was installed in February 2010 and retired in April 2017. He was succeeded by [[Steven Benford]] previously Vicar of The Church of St. Joseph the Worker in North London, who was consecrated and installed in September 2017. He relinquished his charge in May 2024.

The following individuals have served as the Bishop of Dunedin, or any precursor title:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! colspan="6" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;" | Bishops of Dunedin
|-
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 5%;"  | Ordinal
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;" | Officeholder
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 8%;" | Term start
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 8%;" | Term end 
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 40%;" | Notes
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|align=center| {{nts|1}} || ''[[Henry Jenner (bishop)|Henry Jenner]]'' ||align=center | 1866 ||align=center | 1871 || Disputed; see [[Dunedin Controversy]]
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|align=center| {{nts|2}} || [[Samuel Nevill]] ||align=center | 1871 ||align=center | 1919 || [[Primate of New Zealand]] from 1904; resigned both in ill-health, 1&nbsp;July 1919
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|align=center| {{nts|3}} || [[Isaac Richards (bishop)|Isaac Richards]] ||align=center | 1920 ||align=center | 1934 ||
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|align=center| {{nts|4}} || [[William Fitchett]] ||align=center | 1934 ||align=center | 1952 ||
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|align=center| {{nts|5}} || [[Allen Johnston]] ||align=center | 1953 ||align=center | 1969 || [[Translation (ecclesiastical)|Translated]] to [[Bishop of Waikato|Waikato]]; later [[Archbishop of New Zealand]]
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|align=center| {{nts|6}} || [[Walter Robinson (bishop)|Walter Robinson]] ||align=center | 1969 ||align=center | 1975 ||
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|align=center| {{nts|7}} || [[Peter Mann (bishop)|Peter Mann]] ||align=center | 1976 ||align=center | 1989 ||
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|align=center| {{nts|8}} || [[Penny Jamieson]] ||align=center | 1989 ||align=center | 2004 ||
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|align=center| {{nts|9}} || [[George Connor (bishop)|George Connor]] ||align=center | 2005 ||align=center | 2009 || {{ubl|Translated from Bay of Plenty, Diocese of Waiapu|Convening&nbsp;Bishop (New&nbsp;Zealand dioceses), 2005&ndash;2009|Co-Presiding Bishop / Pīhopa Aporei (Tikanga Pākehā), 2004&ndash;2006}}
|- valign="top" style="background-color: #F7F0F2;"
|align=center| {{nts|10}} || [[Kelvin Wright]] ||align=center | 2010 ||align=center | 2017 ||
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|align=center| {{nts|11}} || [[Steven Benford]] ||align=center | 2017 ||align=center | 2024 ||
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|align=center| {{nts|12}} || [[Anne van Gend]] ||align=center | 2025 ||align=center | present ||
|}

==Deans==
{{Further|Dean of Dunedin}}
{{anchor|Archdeacon of Dunedin|Archdeacon of Oamaru|Archdeacon of Southland|Archdeacon of Invercargill and Queenstown|Archdeacon of Invercargill|Archdeacon of Queenstown}}

==Archdeaconries==
In 1886, there were three archdeaconries: [[Edward Edwards (Archdeacon of Dunedin)|Edward Edwards]] was [[Archdeacon of Dunedin]], [[George Beaumont (Archdeacon of Invercargill and Queenstown)|George Beaumont]] [[Archdeacon of Invercargill and Queenstown|of Invercargill and Queenstown]] and [[John Fenton (Archdeacon of Oamaru)|John Fenton]] [[Archdeacon of Oamaru|of Oamaru]]; within a year, [[Harry Stocker]] had also become an archdeacon.<ref>[[Henry Jacobs (priest)|Jacobs, Henry]]. "Diocese of Dunedin" (Part IV, Chapter III) in ''Colonial Church Histories: New Zealand'' (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1887) (Accessed at [http://anglicanhistory.org/nz/jacobs_histories1887/04.03.html Project Canterbury], 25 June 2019)</ref>
{{Archdeacons of Dunedin}}
{{Archdeacons of Southland}}
{{Archdeacons of Central Otago}}<!--
{{Archdeacons of Oamaru/Coastal Otago}}-->

==Social service organisations==

* The South Centre, Invercargill.
* Anglican Family Care Centre, Dunedin.

==School==

* [[St Hilda's Collegiate School]], Dunedin

==University hall of residence==

* [[Selwyn College, Otago|Selwyn College]] founded in 1893 is the oldest college for students at the [[University of Otago]].

==Homes for the aged==

* St Barnabas Home, Dunedin
* Parata Home, Gore
* North Otago Anglican Homes for the Aged, Oamaru

==Orphanage==

In the past the diocese operated St Mary's Orphanage, Dunedin.

==Religious orders==

* The Community of [[Sisters of the Church]] was active in the diocese from the end of the 19th century until the 1930s. They were invited by Bishop Nevill to found a school for girls. They founded St Hilda's Collegiate School.

==Companion dioceses==

* Edinburgh
* Eastern Zambia

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite web |last= Blain |first= Michael |title= Clergy in the Diocese of Dunedin 1852-1919: A biographical directory of Anglican clergy who served in Otago and Southland |publisher= Privately published |date= 2003 |url= http://anglicanhistory.org/nz/blain_dunedin2003.pdf |accessdate= January 25, 2021}}
*{{cite thesis |last= Derbyshire |first= Noel William  |date=2006  |title= "The English Church" Revisited Issues of Expansion and Identity in a Settler Church: The Anglican Church in New Zealand |type= Master of Arts in History |publisher= Massey University |pages= |url= https://mro.massey.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10179/633/02whole.pdf |access-date= March 26, 2021}}

==External links==
* [http://www.calledsouth.org.nz/ Diocese of Dunedin]
* [http://www.anglican.org.nz/ Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia]
* [http://www.anglicancommunion.org/ Anglican Communion]
* [https://stpaulsnz.net/ St Paul's Cathedral Dunedin]

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