Representatives from throughout the Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki have selected a nominee to be the 7th Anglican Bishop Bishop of Waikato. The name was the outcome of prayer, discussion, and voting, at an Electoral College that began on Friday evening at Southwell School in Hamilton and concluded last Sunday afternoon. Continue reading
Posts Tagged ‘Anglican’
Anglican Alliance launches “Agents of Change” in Honiara
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
The Anglican Alliance’s biggest capacity building program Agents of Change has been launched in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands. The Church’s Melanesian Board of Mission’s Secretary, Fr George Elo, helped to launch the study program with the Anglican Alliance Pacific Facilitator, Tagolyn Kabekabe. The course – a distance learning course in community development Read more
Pope expands role of personal ordinariates
Friday, July 12th, 2013Pope Francis has made a significant change to the norms governing the personal ordinariates established to encourage Anglicans to enter into communion with the Catholic Church. A baptised Catholic who has not completed the sacraments of initiation, but returns to the faith and practice of the Church through being evangelised by an ordinariate may now Read more
Wellington’s new Dean tells his saga of sin and redemption
Friday, July 5th, 2013At the height of his spending addiction, Wellington’s new Anglican dean Digby Wilkinson was “in a black hole” and didn’t know if he would ever get out. In 2003, the pastor was 37 years old and addicted to spending, going as far as committing insurance fraud and stealing from members of his church to fuel Read more
Pokies charity accuses Anglicans of hypocrisy
Friday, June 28th, 2013
The biggest pokie charity in the country has accused the Anglican Church of hypocrisy and leadership failure and is rejecting a funding application by the Christchurch Cathedral because one Anglican organisation has spoken out against gaming machines. Pub Charity chief executive Martin Cheer said a submission by an Anglican body seeking Pokie reform was a Read more
Bishop Duckworth leads the Anglican charge
Tuesday, June 25th, 2013
He’s been shackled to his children on an anti-slavery march, mistaken for a pimp in seedy Cuba St, and founded a modern monastery. Nikki Macdonald talks to Bishop Justin Duckworth about his colourful past and his greatest challenge yet – revitalising the Anglican Church. By the glow of a candle stub cradled inside a coconut Read more
Archbishop Moxon meets Pope Francis
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
The former Anglican Archbishop of New Zealand, David Moxon, has had his first meeting with Pope Francis. Moxon, who is now the worldwide Anglican Communion’s newly appointed ambassador to the Catholic Church in Rome, joined the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, in the meeting on Friday evening (NZ time). It was the first time Read more
Unity message from Pope and Archbishop Welby
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Pope Francis and the new Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury have met for the first time, committing themselves to the search for reconciliation and unity between the Catholic and Anglican communions. The Pope gratefully recalled that Archbishop Welby prayed for him during the ceremony when he took possession of Canterbury Cathedral. “Since we began Read more
Church leader planning to build a marae Western Australia.
Friday, May 31st, 2013A Ngati Porou church leader living across the Tasman is planning to build a marae for the growing Maori community in Western Australia. Kaua Te Rangi Tuhura, known to most people as Reverend Kuzie, moved with his family from the small East Coast settlement of Hiruharama in 2011 to Bunbury just south of Perth. Since Read more
Anglicans choose Philip Richardson as new Archbishop
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
The Bishop of Taranaki, Philip Richardson, has been confirmed as Archbishop-elect at a meeting in Wellington on Saturday. From May 1st the 55-year-old becomes the Archbishop for Tikanga Pakeha and will work alongside the leader of the Maori arm of the church, Archbishop Brown Turei, and Archbishop Winston Halapua who is Bishop of Polynesia. He will Read more