Archbishop David Moxon is heading to Rome as the Anglican Communion’s chief representative to the Roman Catholic Church.
The High Court has halted the deconstruction of Christchurch's severely damaged cathedral – but only until the Church Property Trustees produce plans and commit to building a new Cathedral in the Square.
Lloyd Ashton writes about the Archbishop of Canterbury's sermon at the Opening Eucharist of the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Auckland, New Zealand.
Get ready for a once in a lifetime event. That’s what Auckland Anglicans were hearing in the leadup to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s visit, and the meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council in the Parnell Cathedral.
Christchurch New Zealand and Christ Church Cathedral Dublin may be at opposite corners of the globe but when 5 major earthquakes and over 10,000 aftershocks struck Christchurch New Zealand between September 2010 and December 2011, the people of Christ Church Cathedral Dublin responded with love and generosity.
The two New Zealand-based Archbishops have publicly declared that the Anglican Church stands four-square behind the Bible in Schools programme.
Church: We Need to Talk About Marriage...That’s what the General Synod decided in Fiji this afternoon.
As expected, the General Synod said a final: ‘No’ to the proposed Anglican covenant today. But it did so quietly, and the original motion was amended to stress this church’s desire to remain tightly knit with the Communion.
A Transitional Cathedral for Christchurch – designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban – will be built in Latimer Square on the site of St John’s Church.
The 130-year-old spiritual centrepiece of Christchurch today was reduced to an ordinary ruin. And all in the space of half an hour.
Archbishop Winston Halapua has returned from three days in the stricken Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu. And as far as he's concerned, rising sea levels are no longer abstract theory. They're real. They're fact. Now.
ChristChurch Cathedral – the icon of that quake-crippled city, and the most recognised church in New Zealand – is to be deconsecrated ahead of partial demolition.
A tribute to Archbishop Sir Paul Reeves from the Revd Canon Kenneth Kearon, Secretary General of the Anglican Communion
One of New Zealand's most celebrated Anglicans Bishop Sir Paul Reeves, died in Auckland this morning aged 78.
The bishop of Christchurch, the Rt Revd Victoria Matthews, has said she fears her clergy are facing "exhaustion of spirit" and experiencing "a deep weariness of soul" in the wake of new tremors in the New Zealand city.
The Dean of Christchurch Cathedral, the Very Revd Peter Beck, has said he is fearful that people may have been in the Cathedral's tower when it collapsed after an earthquake struck the city.
The Archbishops and Standing Committee of the General Synod/te Hinota Whanui of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia were meeting in Rotorua when they heard about the latest Christchurch earthquake. In a statement released today they reflect on the situation and offer prayers for those affected.
At 10.45am on the 12th May Archbishop Brown Turei declared that Bishop Winston Halapua had been elected as the new Bishop of Polynesia – and therefore, as one of the three Archbishops of the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia.
Archbishop Bryce, who was 75, had led the Diocese of Polynesia for almost 35 years – and he was, at time of his death, the longest-serving bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. In 2006 he was also chosen as one of the three leaders of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
At this time of serious flooding at Nadi, Labasa and other places, Archbishops David Moxon and Brown Turei have asked Anglicans in Aotearoa New Zealand to pray especially for the Diocese of Polynesia in Fiji.
A Canadian Bishop who is part of a high-level advisory group to the worldwide Anglican Communion has been elected Bishop of Christchurch. The Rt Revd Victoria Matthews is currently bishop-in-residence at Wycliffe College in Toronto. She was Bishop of Edmonton for 10 years from 1997 to late last year, and Suffragan (Assistant) Bishop of Toronto from 1994-97.
"Continue with us in prayer and love," Bishop Bryce said to Bishop Barnett when asked what assistance Sydney Anglicans could offer to the Anglican Church in Fiji. Bishop Bryce said that they were waiting to see the outcome of the present events there.
New Zealand's Anglican Archbishops have challenged State educational moves, which they say will prejudice parents' rights to influence the shaping of children's spirituality and values. This follows reports that the Ministry of Education will soon release new guidelines to state primary and intermediate schools, and their boards of trustees, which will have the effect of suppressing or inhibiting prayers
The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia has opted for a new model of shared leadership that honours its three-Tikanga structure. The Primacy of the church will be amended constitutionally to comprise the three senior bishops, each carrying the title of Archbishop and Co-presiding Bishop
Key issues of leadership will be discussed by more than 110 Anglicans from all over the southern Pacific at a six-day conference in Christchurch beginning this Sunday. Topping the Synod agenda is the election of a new Primate (head) for the Church, and also the shape of the Primacy.
The 2004 Meeting of Bishops the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia has issued a pastoral letter to the Church on the release of the Windsor Report
We, Church Leaders in New Zealand, are gravely concerned at the terrible tragedy developing in Darfur, Western Sudan; a disaster that the United Nations has described as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. Over 1.2 million people have been forced to flee their homes and are now internally displaced or refugees in neighbouring Chad.
The Reverend Helen Jacobi has been appointed as the new Dean of St John's Cathedral in Napier, a city in the North Island of New Zealand.
The Revd Dr Trevor James, Vicar of St Mary's Anglican Church, Hawera, New Zealand, has drawn on traditional models to create a litany for those wishing to offer special prayers for the Primates' Meeting.
The 8th Anglican Indigenous Network (AIN) gathering (31 March - 5 April) began with a traditional Maori welcome near the shores of Lake Rotorua, Aotearoa (New Zealand).
