Diocese of Dunedin

Present Bishop

Rt Reverend Dr Steven Benford

Office: PO Box 13170 Green Island, Dunedin 9052

Tel: 03 488 0826

Web Site: www.calledsouth.org.nz

Jurisd - Provinces of Otago and Southland, NZ and Adjacent Is; Area 65,427 sq Km; Census Pop: 317,200 (2013); Ch Pop: 21,756 (2013); Description of Arms; Gules between a cross saltire argent, four stars argent on the fess point a Bible.

Former Bishops

1871 – S T Nevill, 1919
1920 – I Richards, 1934
1934 – W A R Fitchett, 1952
1953 – A H Johnston, 1969
1969 – W W Robinson, 1975
1976 – P W Mann, 1990
1990 – P Jamieson, 2004

2005 - G H D Connor, 2009

2010 - K P Wright, 2017

Vicar General

The Venerable Jan Clark, BTh, NZRGON.

Email: janclark8260@gmail.com

Deputy Vicar General

The Reverend Dr Anne van Gend, BA, A.Mus.A, GDT, GDth, Mth, PhD 

Chancellor of the Diocese

Mrs Lauren Pegg, BSW (Massey), LLB (Waikato) 

Cathedral of St Paul

The Very Reverend Dr Tony Curtis SCP (Dean)
PO Box 5205, Dunedin 9054

Email: dean@stpauls.net.nz

Diocesan Registrar

Mr Andrew Metcalfe

Email: registrar@calledsouth.org.nz

Diocesan Office

1A Howden Street, Green Island, Dunedin 9018;
PO Box 13170, Green Island, Dunedin 9052
Tel: 03 488 0820
Email: registrar@calledsouth.org.nz Website:http://calledsouth.org.nz

Archdeacons

The Venerable Jan Clark, NZRGON (Dunedin City)  

Mr Keith Gover, BSc, BTh, DipTchg (Southland)  

The Venerable Damon Plimmer (Central Otago) 

The Venerable Dr Michael Godfrey (Oamaru and East Otago) 

Archdeacons Emeritus

The Venerable B E Wilkinson, LTh

Clerical Canons

The Reverend Canon Michael Wallace, BA, BTh, MPhil  

The Reverend Canon Dr James Harding BA(Manchester), MA, PCHE, PhD(Sheffield) 

The Reverend Canon Rose Scott 

Canons Emeritus 

The Reverend Canon C J Rodgers, TTC, BTh

The Reverend Canon J C Brown, MA

The Reverend Canon Gary Griffith-Smith B. Theol (Hons)

Lay Canons

Mrs C Barnsley

Mr A Thompson

Mrs K Wilson

Lay Canon Emeritus

Mr I W Gallaway

Mrs M M Fulton

Mrs B M Smith

Dr A E J Fitchett

Mrs E M Cunningham

Bishop’s Chaplains for the Ordained Ministry

The Venerable Jan Clark, BTh, NZRGON 

The Reverend Eric Kyte, BA (Hons), BSC (Hons), Grad Cert Ed 

The Reverend Joanna Fielding, BA (Hons) 

Mrs Christine Barnsley 

Ms Julanne Clarke-Morris 

Diocesan Ministry Educator

The Reverend Dr Michael Godfrey BD. (MCD), MA. (Massey), PhD. (ACU)

P O Box 13170, Green Island, Dunedin 9052

Tel: 03 488 0829, Email: educator@calledsouth.org.nz

Diocesan Child Youth Families Educator 

The Reverend John Graveston 

 PO Box 13170, Green Island, Dunedin 9052  

Tel 03 488 0820, Email: youth@calledsouth.org.nz 

Association of Licensed Lay Ministers

Mrs Anne Gover

Anglican Family Care Centres

Dunedin

266 Hanover Street, Dunedin 9016, Tel: 03 477 0801 

Email: office@familycare.co.nz 

Mr M Williams - Director 

South Centre

9 Jenkins Street, Invercargill 9812

PO Box 7100, South Invercargill, Invercargill 9844, Tel: 03 218 2777

Mrs J K Petersen - Director

Email: southcentre@xtra.co.nz

Hospital Chaplains

Dunedin and Wakari Hospitals

The Reverend V Galletly, Tel: 0839 5599

The Reverend J Hamilton-Jones, Tel: 021 295 1774

Southland Hospital

The Reverend J Johnston, Tel: 03 218 1949