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The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia

https://deforestlondon.wordpress.com/... In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we pray for the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Polynesia, which is a church consisting of three cultural streams (tikanga): Māori, Pākehā and Polynesian. In 1809, an Anglican chaplain in Australia named Samuel Marsden met a young Māori sailor named Ruatara and, after meeting other Māori at Parramatta in Australia, became convinced that they were “a very superior people in point of mental capacity.” Marsden urged the Church Missionary Society (CMS) to establish a mission in New Zealand; and on Christmas Day in 1814, he led the first Christian service in Aotearoa, preaching to an assembled crowd while Ruatara translated. The Rev. Samuel Marsden later became known as the “Apostle to New Zealand.” Soon other missionaries followed, including Thomas Kendall and Henry Williams, who began to put the Māori language into written form. By the late 1830s, a substantial Christian community had arisen under the patronage of Māori chiefs. As Europeans continued to settle the island country, the CMS urged the British government not to colonize the region in a way that would repeat many of the problems associated with previous colonial enterprises. The CMS, however, also advised the Māori to request some kind of British rule and protection in order to both prevent other European powers from colonizing the region (such as the Catholic French) and to control white settlement. The CMS proved instrumental in securing an agreement between Māori chiefs and the British in the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840. The Treaty of Waitangi became a symbol of redemption and protest to colonial oppression. In 1841, George Augustus Selwyn was consecrated at Lambeth as the Bishop of New Zealand at age 32. Although he was a high churchman and therefore not the first choice of CMS, the missionary society nevertheless supported him. Selwyn mastered the Māori language and was able to preach in it upon his arrival. He consistently protested against infringements of the Treaty of Waitangi, especially when the British and the Māori fought over land during skirmishes called the New Zealand Wars (1845 – 1872). Bishop Selwyn was able to minister to both sides, and to keep the affection and admiration of both natives and colonists. In 1853, Bishop Selwyn ordained the first Māori deacon, Rota (Lot) Waitoa, but he delayed in priesting him because he felt that more education was required. Selwyn founded the College of St. John the Evangelist in Auckland, named after his alma mater, St. John’s College in Cambridge. In 1857, Bishop Selwyn laid down a constitution for the church, influenced by The Episcopal Church’s polity. Selwyn advocated for a synodical government of three houses: bishops, clergy, and laity with consent in each house being necessary for legislation to pass. Although the number of Māori clergy slowly increased, no Māori bishop was appointed until 1928 when Frederick Augustus Bennett became a suffragan bishop. Bishop Bennett was given the title “Bishop of Aotearoa,” but he remained limited by ecclesiastical restrictions. In the 1970s and 1980s, young Māori engaged in political protests over land rights, justice issues, institutional racism, police brutality, educational injustice, and poor housing conditions. “Maori,” Jenny Ta Paa-Daniel writes, “were and have remained at the forefront of emergent international indigenous protest groups.” After a proposal for a Māori diocese was rejected by the Māori Anglicans who did not want to be represented by a Pakeha, they chose to affirm New Zealand as a bicultural society and to reshape the church as a family of three tikanga (cultural streams): Māori, Pakeha, and Polynesian. The seven dioceses of New Zealand form Tikanga Pākehā. The former bishopric of Aotearoa has undergone transformation into five regions known as Hui Amorangi, each with a bishop. The Diocese of Polynesia, with its vast distances and nine languages, forms the third part of the rearrangement. The first female priest in New Zealand, the Rev. Puti Murray, was ordained in 1978; and in 1990, the church consecrated the first female diocesan bishop of the Anglican Communion: the Rt. Rev. Penelope Jamieson. There is a wide divergence of attitudes towards LGBTQ people in the church and this varies in accordance with cultural norms and how Scripture is interpreted. In 1989, the church published A New Zealand Prayer Book – He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa, which has proven to be a valuable liturgical resource for the entire Anglican Communion and beyond. The liturgies are composed in both Māori and English and one of the Eucharistic liturgies, composed by Māori scholars, used proverbial allusions from Māori poetry and oratory. Along with the pacifying Night Prayer, the New Zealand adaptation of the Lord’s Prayer is an especially poetic offering that is worth praying often: