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Primate of New Zealand
Leader of the Anglican Church in New Zealand / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Archbishop of New Zealand" redirects here. For the leader of the Catholic Church in New Zealand, see Archbishop of Wellington
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 (Māori, Pākehā, Pasefika) 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.
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