Primate of New Zealand is a title held by a bishop who leads the Anglican Church in Aotearoa,New Zealand and Polynesia. Since 2006,the Senior Bishop of each tikanga serves automatically as one of three co-equal Primates-and-Archbishops. Previously,one of these three would be Presiding Bishop and the other two Co-Presiding Bishops;and before that there was only one Primate.
The Anglican Church in Aotearoa,New Zealand and Polynesia,formerly the Church of the Province of New Zealand,is a province of the Anglican Communion serving New Zealand,Fiji,Tonga,Samoa,and the Cook Islands. Since 1992 the church has consisted of three tikanga or cultural streams:Aotearoa,New Zealand,and Polynesia. The church's constitution says that,among other things,it is required to "maintain the right of every person to choose any particular cultural expression of the faith". As a result,the church's General Synod has agreed upon the development of the three-person primacy based on this three tikanga system;it has three primates,each representing a tikanga,who share authority.
The Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACoM),also known as the Church of the Province of Melanesia and the Church of Melanesia (COM),is a church of the Anglican Communion and includes nine dioceses in Solomon Islands,Vanuatu and New Caledonia. The Archbishop of Melanesia is Leonard Dawea. He succeeds the retired archbishop George Takeli.
George Augustus Selwyn was the first Anglican Bishop of New Zealand. He was Bishop of New Zealand from 1841 to 1869. His diocese was then subdivided and Selwyn was Metropolitan of New Zealand from 1858 to 1868. Returning to Britain,Selwyn served as Bishop of Lichfield from 1868 to 1878.
The Archdiocese of Honiara is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the Solomon Islands. It is the successor of the apostolic prefecture of the British Solomon Islands,which was erected in 1897. The ecclesiastical province of Honiara was created in 1978,the first such creation of Pope John Paul II,and contains two suffragan sees:Gizo and Auki (1982).
Sir Ellison Leslie Pogo KBE was a Solomon Islands Anglican bishop. He was the Archbishop of Melanesia and Bishop of Central Melanesia from 1994 until December 9,2008. He was the third Archbishop of Melanesia,following Amos Waiaru. He was married to Roslyn and had three adult children.
The Archbishop of Melanesia is the spiritual head of the Anglican Church of Melanesia,which is a province of the Anglican Communion in the South Pacific region,covering the nations of Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. From 1861 until the inauguration of Church of the Province of Melanesia in 1975,the Bishop of Melanesia was the head of the Diocese of Melanesia.
Amos Stanley Waiaru OBE was a Solomon Islands divine from Nafinuatog who served as the third Archbishop of the Province of Melanesia.
Foley Thomas Beach is an American Anglican bishop. He was the second primate and archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America,a church associated with the Anglican realignment movement,and is the first diocesan bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the South. Beach was elected as the church's primate on June 21,2014. His enthronement took place on October 9,2014. During his primacy,he served as chairman of the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans Primates Council and led the ACNA through a period that included the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mouneer Hanna Anis is an Egyptian Anglican bishop. He was Bishop of Egypt from 2000 to 2021,and the first Anglican Archbishop of Alexandria from 2020 to 2021. He was the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East from 2007 to 2017,when his diocese was part of that ecclesiastical province.
Solomon Tilewa Ethelbert Willie Johnson was a Gambian Anglican bishop. He was the bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Gambia and the Rio Pongas and archbishop of the Church of the Province of West Africa. He was married and had a son and two daughters.
Donald Leo Mtetemela is a former Tanzanian Anglican archbishop. He was archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church of Tanzania,from 1998 to 2008. He is married and has seven children.
Daniel Yinkah Sarfo is a Ghanaian Anglican bishop. He has been a metropolitan archbishop since September 2012,and was Archbishop Primate of the Church of the Province of West Africa (CPWA),since 13 March 2014 until 3 March 2019.
William Alaha Pwaisiho,is a retired Anglican bishop who served as a bishop of the Anglican Church of Melanesia and then a priest in the Church of England.
James Philip Mason is a retired vicar in the Church of England and a former bishop in the Church of the Province of Melanesia.
The Diocese of Temotu is one of the nine current dioceses of the Anglican Church of Melanesia,founded in 1981. Three of the diocese's six bishops have gone on to become archbishops of the province.
George Angus Takeli is a Solomon Islands Anglican bishop. He was Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church of Melanesia and Bishop of the Diocese of Central Melanesia from April 2016 to May 2019. He was first married to Lilian,who died in 2014. He got married a second time to June in December 2015.
Leonard Dawea is the current archbishop of The Anglican Church of Melanesia,he was installed as Archbishop on 15 September 2019.
Sir Dudley Tuti,KBE (1919–2006) was the inaugural Bishop of Ysabel,one of the eight dioceses that make up the Anglican Church of Melanesia.
