Anglican Diocese of Waiapu
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The Diocese was established in 1858. The seat of the Bishop is the Waiapu Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist, Napier.
Andrew Hedge is the current bishop, having been installed on St Luke's Day, 18 October 2014.
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List of bishops
The following individuals have served as the Bishop of Waiapu, or any precursor title:
| Bishops of Waiapu | |||||
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| Ordinal | Officeholder | Term start | Term end | Notes | |
| Template:Nts | William Williams | 1859 | 1876 | [2] | |
| Template:Nts | Edward Stuart | 1877 | 1894 | ||
| Template:Nts | Leonard Williams | 1895 | 1909 | Son of William Williams[3][4] | |
| Template:Nts | Alfred Averill | 1910 | 1914 | ||
| Template:Nts | William Sedgwick | 1914 | 1929 | From 1928 until the 1970s, the Bishop of Aotearoa was a suffragan bishop of Waiapu | |
| Template:Nts | Herbert Williams | 1930 | 1937 | Grandson of William Williams[5] | |
| Template:Nts | George Gerard | 1938 | 1944 | ||
| Template:Nts | George Cruickshank | 1945 | 1946 | ||
| Template:Nts | Norman Lesser | 1947 | 1971 | Also Archbishop of New Zealand from 1961 | |
| Template:Nts | Paul Reeves | 1971 | 1979 | ||
| Template:Nts | Ralph Matthews | 1979 | 1983 | ||
| Template:Nts | Peter Atkins | 1983 | 1990 | ||
| Template:Nts | Murray Mills | 1991 | 2002 | ||
| Template:Nts | John Bluck | 2002 | 2008 | ||
| Template:Nts | David Rice | 2008 | 2014 | Translated as Bishop of San Joaquin, USA | |
| Template:Nts | Andrew Hedge | Script error: No such module "Date time".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". | incumbent | ||
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Archdeaconries
In 1866, there were two archdeaconries: A. N. Brown was Archdeacon of Tauranga and Leonard Williams of Waiapu.[6]
- Archdeacon of Waiapu[7]
- 1862–?: Leonard Williams
- David Ruddock
- Archdeacon of Tauranga[7]
- ?–1884 (d.): Alfred Brown
- Samuel Williams
References
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- ↑ The Clergy List for 1866 (London: George Cox, 1866) p. 468
- ↑ a b Jacobs, Henry. "Diocese of Waiapu" (Part IV, Chapter V) in Colonial Church Histories: New Zealand (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1887) (Accessed at Project Canterbury, 25 June 2019)
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External links
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- Diocese of Waiapu on the official website of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
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