Api Qiliho
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Apimeleki Nadoki Qiliho is an indigenous Fijian from the Province of Nadroga-Navosa in the Fiji Islands and a retired Anglican bishop.
Consecrated a bishop on 10 April 2005, he became "Bishop in Vanua Levu and Taveuni"[1] in the Diocese of Polynesia (Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia) — he made church history by becoming the first indigenous Fijian bishop in that church.[2] He was one of three suffragan (assistant) bishops (consecrated the same day) who served under the diocesan Bishop of Polynesia (then Jabez Bryce) — the diocese covers Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands. After his comrade Gabriel Sharma resigned as Bishop in Viti Levu West, Qiliho also took that role from 2014 onwards; in 2017, he became (instead) Assistant Bishop of the diocese,[3] until his retirement in August 2018.[4]