Daniel Sitaram - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:59:24 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Daniel Sitaram - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Waikato hospital chaplain has interesting background https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/02/28/waikato-hospital-chaplain-interesting-background/ Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:30:56 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=54873

Daniel Sitaram has taken an interesting route to his present job as a chaplain at Waikato Hospital. Born in Fiji, he is of Indian Fijian heritage. He was ordained an Anglican priest and worked in parishes in Fiji before spending 8 years as a high school teacher. Then he moved to Anglican diocese of Christchurch. He obtained Read more

Waikato hospital chaplain has interesting background... Read more]]> Daniel Sitaram has taken an interesting route to his present job as a chaplain at Waikato Hospital.

Born in Fiji, he is of Indian Fijian heritage. He was ordained an Anglican priest and worked in parishes in Fiji before spending 8 years as a high school teacher.

Then he moved to Anglican diocese of Christchurch. He obtained a Bachelor of theology from Auckland University, a Bachelor of Nursing from the Manukau Institute of Technology, and worked as a lab technician before returning to pastoral ministry as the chaplain at the Mission to Seafarers in Auckland.

"I think I bring a cultural mix to the Waikato Hospital chaplaincy team and may be able to help with patients and visitors who speak other languages because as well as English, I speak Fijian Indian, most of the Indian dialects, and can also communicate in Tongan and Samoan as well," says Daniel.

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