religion

This cartoon from Truth illustrates the concern among some parishioners about churches being used to hang prohibition placards on.

English-born New Zealander Penny Jamieson was the first woman in the world to be ordained a bishop of the Anglican Church

Portrait of Octavius Hadfield, c1890s. A member of the Church Missionary Society, Hadfield was the first priest to be ordained in New Zealand.

This formal group portrait, taken on the occasion of Ratana's 60th birthday, includes Paraire Karaka Paikea and Tiaki Omana (back row, from left); and Haami Tokouru Ratana, Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana and Eruera Tihema Te Aika Tirikatene (front row, from left).

In 1862 Te Ua Haumene established a new religion, Hauhau based on the principle of pai marire – goodness and peace. Most settlers viewed Hauhau as a anti-European religion that became synonymous with ‘violence, fanaticism and barbarism’.

Photograph of the founder of Pai Mārire, Te Ua Haumēne.

In 1862 Te Ua had a vision in which the archangel Gabriel instructed him to lead his people in ‘casting off the yoke of the Pakeha’. The birthright of the Israelites (the Māori people) would be restored in the land of Canaan (New Zealand), and following a day of deliverance the unrighteous would perish.

Dr Penny Jamieson’s rise through church ranks was rapid. Women had first been ordained to the Anglican priesthood in 1977. Jamieson was ordained and appointed to a Wellington parish in 1985. She was elected by her peers to the see of Dunedin just five years later.

Born in England, she married New Zealander Ian Jamieson and moved with him to Wellington. There she worked with the Wellington City Mission while writing her doctoral thesis. It was during this time that she developed a vocation to the priesthood.

Octavius Hadfield, member of the Church Missionary Society, was, in 1838, the first priest to be ordained in New Zealand. He became Bishop of Wellington in 1870