Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia

The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand & Polynesia is a member of the Anglican Communion and has 584,793 members in 552 parishes served by 822 clergymen . At the head of their nine dioceses is the Archbishop of New Zealand as the primate .

After 1970, the remarriage of divorcees whose former spouse was still alive, had been approved, it came in 1977 and the first ordination of a woman and 1990 with Penny Jamieson for the episcopal ordination of the first diocesan bishop of the Anglican Communion . In May 2018, the General Synod endorsed the public blessing of same-sex couples .

The province includes 9 dioceses in 5 states:

diocese	Country	bishop
Aotearoa	New Zealand New Zealand , Gisborne	Donald Tamihere
Auckland	New Zealand New Zealand , Parnell, Auckland	Ross Bay
Christchurch	New Zealand New Zealand , Christchurch	Victoria Matthews
Dunedin	New Zealand New Zealand , Dunedin	Kelvin Wright
Nelson	New Zealand New Zealand , Nelson	Victor Richard Ellena
Polynesia	Fiji Fiji , Suva Samoa Tonga Cook Islands Samoa Tonga Cook Islands	Winston Halapua
Waiapu	New Zealand New Zealand , Napier	David Rice
Waikato	New Zealand New Zealand , Hamilton	Philip Richardson
Wellington	New Zealand New Zealand , Wellington	Thomas John Brown

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