Primates

CURRENT PRIMATES/ ARCHBISHOPS

The Most Rev'd Don Tamihere 2018 -

The Most Rev'd Sione Ulu'ilkepa 2023 -

The Most Rev'd Justin Duckworth 2024 - 

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MAP KEY:

Tikanga Pasefika

1. Diocese of Polynesia

Tikanga Māori (white dotted lines)

2. Te Pīhopatanga o Aotearoa

    a. Te Pīhopatanga o Te Tai Tokerau

    b. Te Pīhopatanga o Te Manawa o te Wheke 

    c. Te Pīhopatanga o Te Tairāwhiti 

    d. Te Pīhopatanga o Te Upoko o te Ika 

    e. Anglican Māori Diocese of Te Waipounamu |

        Te Pīhopatanga o Te Waipounamu 

 Tikanga Pākehā (grey lines)

 3. Diocese of Auckland 

 4. Diocese of Waikato & Taranaki

 5. Diocese of Waiapu

 6. Diocese of Wellington

 7. Diocese of Nelson

 8. Diocese of Christchurch

 9. Diocese of Dunedin 

PREVIOUS PRIMATES/ ARCHBISHOPS

The Branch of the United Church of England and Ireland in New Zealand 1841-74

The Church of the Province of New Zealand (commonly known as the Church of England) 1874-1968

The Church of the Province of New Zealand (commonly known as the Anglican Church) 1968-92

1841-69

Bishop of New Zealand and Metropolitan (Right Reverend)

1841-69 George Augustus Selwyn

1869-1922

Primate (Right Reverend)

1869-90 Henry John Chitty Harper (Christchurch)

1890-93 Octavius Hadfield (Wellington)

1893-1902 William Garden Cowie (Auckland)

1902-19 Samuel Tarratt Nevill (Dunedin)

1920-22 Churchill Julius (Christchurch)

1922-92

Primate and Archbishop of New Zealand (Most Reverend)

1922-25 Churchill Julius (Christchurch)

1925-40 Alfred Walter Averill (Auckland)

1940-52 Campbell West-Watson (Christchurch)

1952-60 Reginald Herbert Owen (Wellington)

1961-71 Norman Alfred Lesser (Waiapu)

1972-80 Allen Howard Johnston (Waikato)

1980-85 Paul Alfred Reeves (Auckland)

1986-92 Brian Newton Davis (Waikato, Wellington)

The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia

Te Hahi Mihinare ki Aotearoa ki Niu Tireni, ki Nga Moutere o Te Moana Nui a Kiwa

1992-97

Primate and Archbishop (Most Reverend)

1992-97 Brian Newton Davis (Wellington)

1998-2004

Primate and Presiding Bishop (Right Reverend)

John Campell Paterson (Auckland)

Co-Presiding Bishops:

Tikanga Maori (Right Reverend)

Whakahuihui Vercoe (Aotearoa)

Tikanga Pasefika (Right Reverend)

Jabez Leslie Bryce (Polynesia)

Tikanga Pakeha (Convening Bishop) (Right Reverend)

George Howard Douglas Connor (Bay of Plenty)

2004-06

Primate and Archbishop (Most Reverend)

Whakahuihui Vercoe

Co-Presiding Bishops:

Tikanga Pasefika (Right Reverend)

Jabez Leslie Bryce (Polynesia)

Tikanga Pakeha (Right Reverend)

George Howard Douglas Connor (Bay of Plenty, Dunedin)

2006-08

Shared Primacy (interim arrangement)

Primate

Archbishop: Tikanga Maori (Most Reverend)

William Brown Turei (Aotearoa)

Archbishop and Co-Presiding Bishops (Most Reverend):

Tikanga Polynesia

Jabez Leslie Bryce (Polynesia)

Tikanga Pakeha

David John Moxon (Waikato)

2008- (renewed 2014, 2020)

Shared Primacy

Primate and Archbishop (Most Reverend)

Te Pihopatanga o Aotearoa

2008-17 William Brown Turei (Aotearoa)

2018- Donald Steven Tamihere (Aotearoa)

Diocese of Polynesia

2008-10 Jabez Leslie Bryce (Polynesia)

2010-18 Winston Halapua (Polynesia)

2019-21 Fereimi Cama (Polynesia)

2023- Sione Ulu'ilakepa (Polynesia)

New Zealand Dioceses

2008-2013 David John Moxon (Waikato)

2013-2023 Philip Richardson (Taranaki, Waikato & Taranaki)

2024- Justin Duckworth (Wellington)