There were 11 concelebrating bishops: Cardinal John Dew, Archbishop Martin Krebs, and bishops Patrick Dunn, Stephen Lowe, Paul Martin, Charles Drennan, Dennis Brown, Peter Cullinane, Owen Dolan, Basil Meeking and Stuart O'Connell.

The ordination was attended by more than 1000 people including the Otago and Southland members of parliament, the mayors of Dunedin and Invercargill, representatives from community groups and councils throughout the diocese and representatives from various religious orders and Catholic secondary and primary schools.

There was a significant bicultural theme to the service and participation from a number of ethnic groups.

As well as a combined choir, choristers from the Samoan, Tongan and Filipino communities sang.

Children from St Mary's School Mosgiel and St Peter Chanel School Green Island also performed.

Members of Bishop Michael's family offered the prayers of the faithful.

The following morning, the liturgical installation of Bishop Michael was held in St Joseph's Cathedral which was full to capacity.

The Cardinal Dew presided over this celebration.

The service was a moving one with the new bishop knocking on and entering the doors of the Cathedral, accompanied by Dew.

The new bishop received addresses of welcome from Fr Wayne Healey, representing the diocesan clergy, Sr Judith-Anne O'Sullivan OP representing the religious priests, brothers and sisters of the diocese and Tui Pasco representing the laity.

Dooley's family also took part in this celebration.

At the end of the service, all the bishops and clergy stood for a photo on the stairs at the rear of the Church, while white doves were released.

Following this, members of the congregation and clergy met for morning tea and a cutting of the cake at Kavanagh College.

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He also became an Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, joining Archbishop Philip Richardson (Pakeha) and Archbishop Winson Halapua (Polynesia).

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More than 1000 people attended the ordination of Father Henry Bull as the new suffragan bishop of the Anglican Church in the Northern Division.

He was ordained on Sunday (10 December) under a large corrugated iron roof, held up by scaffolding because the journey to Holy Trinity Cathedral in Suva would have been too difficult for his supporters.

Anglican Taonga, the official news service of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, put it this way: "Around those parts, many folk are subsistence farmers - and for them, a long and complicated trip to Suva, on the far side of Fiji's other main island, Viti Levu, for an ordination in Holy Trinity Cathedral was possible in theory, maybe - but so too, is flying to the moon."

Henry Bull was born and raised on the remote coast of Vanua Levu. And his ministry radiates from the Church of The Holy Cross in Dreketi - which he helped build.

"I wanted the people to know that the real church is not the buildings - but they themselves, the living stones," he told Anglican Taonga.

Archbishop Winston Halapua, the Bishop of Polynesia, said that the idea that Episcopal ordinations have to be done in cathedrals "is what has trapped us in the past."

He said: "What we have seen today is that where the people are - that's like a cathedral. This is eye-opening for the diocese."

Archbishop Philip Richardson, the senior bishop of the New Zealand dioceses, commented: "One of the great characteristics of Anglican leadership is a sense of being incarnated in community - being really embedded and immersed in community."

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Bishop Williamson, who was dismissed from the Society of St Pius X in 2012, told followers the ordination will happen in Brazil on March 19.

Last year, he presided at the ordination of a bishop, also in Brazil.

Bishop Williamson said the new bishops are needed to sustain "the resistance".

Canon law stipulates that anyone involved in the ordination of a bishop without approval from the Holy See incurs automatic excommunication.

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