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{{Short description|Anglican diocese in New Zealand}}
{{about|the Anglican diocese in New Zealand|the Catholic diocese in Canada|Roman Catholic Diocese of Nelson}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox diocese
| jurisdiction      = Diocese
| name              = Nelson
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| coat_caption      = Arms of the Diocese of Nelson
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| incumbent         = [[Steve Maina]]
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| style             = The Right Reverend
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| country           = [[New Zealand]]
| territory         = [[South Island]]
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| province          = [[Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia|Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia]]
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| headquarters      = [[Nelson, New Zealand|Nelson]]
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| first_incumbent   = [[Edmund Hobhouse]]
| date              = 1858
| denomination      = [[Anglicanism|Anglican]]
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| rite              = [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical]]<!-- e.g., [[Roman Rite]] -->
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| cathedral         = [[Christ Church Cathedral, Nelson|Christ Church Cathedral]]<!-- Cathedral that serves as the seat of the diocese -->
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| major_archbishop  = {{ubl|[[Primate of New Zealand]]|Pīhopa Mātāmua}}
| bishop            = [[Steve Maina]]<!-- Name and title of the current ordinary of the diocese -->
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The '''Diocese of Nelson ''' is one of the 13 [[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 northern part of the [[South Island]] of New Zealand, which is mostly the area north of a line drawn from [[Greymouth]] to [[Kaikōura]].

The Diocese was founded in 1858 and the [[Cathedra|seat]] of the Bishop is at [[Christ Church Cathedral, Nelson|Christ Church Cathedral]] in [[Nelson, New Zealand|Nelson]].

On 31 August 2019, [[Steve Maina]] was ordained and installed as Bishop of Nelson.

Nelson Diocese is a noted [[Evangelicalism|Evangelical]] diocese, drawing similarities with the [[Anglican Diocese of Sydney]], in [[Australia]].
{{anchor|Archdeacon of Waimea|Archdeacon of Wairau|Archdeacon of Māwheru|Archdeacon of Marlborough|Archdeacon of Nelson}}

==List of bishops==
The following individuals have served as the Bishop of Nelson, or any precursor title:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! colspan="6" style="background-color: #7F1734; color: white;" | Bishops of Nelson
|-
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 5%;"  | Ordinal
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 15%;" | Officeholder
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 8%;" | Term start
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 8%;" | Term end 
! style="background-color: #D4B1BB; width: 10%;" | Notes
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|align=center| {{nts|1}} || [[Edmund Hobhouse]] ||align=center| 1858 ||align=center| 1865 ||
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|align=center| {{nts|2}} || [[Andrew Suter]] ||align=center| 1866 ||align=center| 1891 ||
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|align=center| {{nts|3}} || [[Charles Mules]] ||align=center| 1892 ||align=center| 1912 ||
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|align=center| {{nts|4}} || [[William Sadlier (bishop)|William Sadlier]] ||align=center| 1912 ||align=center| 1934 || 
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|align=center| {{nts|5}} || [[William Hilliard (bishop)|William Hilliard]] ||align=center| 1934 ||align=center| 1940 ||
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|align=center| {{nts|6}} || {{nowrap|[[Percival Stephenson]]}} ||align=center| 1940 ||align=center| 1954 ||
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|align=center| {{nts|7}} || [[Frank Hulme-Moir]] ||align=center| 1954 ||align=center| 1965 ||
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|align=center| {{nts|8}} || [[Peter Sutton (bishop)|Peter Sutton]] ||align=center| 1965 ||align=center| 1990 ||
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|align=center| {{nts|9}} || [[Derek Eaton]] ||align=center| 1990 ||align=center| 2006 ||
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|align=center| {{nts|10}} || [[Richard Ellena]] ||align=center| 2007 ||align=center| 2018 ||
|- valign="top" style="background-color: white;"
|align=center| {{nts|11}} || {{nowrap|[[Steve Maina]]}} ||align=center|{{nowrap|{{start date|2019|08|31|df=y}}}} ||align=center| ''incumbent'' ||
|}

==Archdeaconries==
In 1866, the sole archdeaconry – [[Archdeacon of Waimea|of Waimea]] – was vacant.<ref>''The Clergy List for 1866'' (London: George Cox, 1866) [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=hIxbAAAAMAAJ&pg=GBS.PA469 p. 469]</ref>

:'''Archdeacon of Waimea'''<ref name="jacobs">[[Henry Jacobs (priest)|Jacobs, Henry]]. "Diocese of Nelson" (Part IV, Chapter IV) in ''Colonial Church Histories: New Zealand'' (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1887) (Accessed at [http://anglicanhistory.org/nz/jacobs_histories1887/04.04.html Project Canterbury], 25 June 2019)</ref>
*?–1859 (res.): R. B. Paul
*1859–1874: ''vacant''
*1874–1880 (res.): Thorpe
*1880–?: C. O. Mules
*1956–1966 (res.): [[Harold Ault]]<ref name="blain">Blain, Michael. ''Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific – ordained before 1932'' (2019) p. 50 (Accessed at [http://anglicanhistory.org/nz/blain_directory/directory.pdf Project Canterbury], 25 June 2019)</ref>
{{Archdeacons of Waimea}}
:'''Archdeacon of Wairau'''<ref name="jacobs" />
*1868–1886 (d.): H. F. Butt
:'''Archdeacon of Māwhera'''<ref name="jacobs" />
*1886–?: Thomas Billing Maclean
{{Archdeacons of Māwhera}}
{{Archdeacons of Marlborough}}
{{Archdeacons of Nelson}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{official website|http://www.nelsonanglican.nz/}}
* [http://www.nelsoncathedral.org/ Nelson Cathedral website]

{{Bishops of Nelson}}
{{Province of New Zealand}}

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