August 25, 2016
Archbishop Brown Turei to retire
Archbishop Brown Turei will resign as Te Pihopa ki Te Tai Rawhiti at the end of this year, and as Te Pihopa o Aotearoa from the end of March next year.
He will have served more than 65 years as a priest.
Archbishop Turei says the two-stage resignation will allow Tairawhiti and Waipounamu to elect new Bishops and have full representation in place before the election for a new Bishop of Aotearoa.
He says it’s the season for new leadership, new vision and ideas, and a fresh wind of the Holy Spirit to come and lead the church forward.
Archbishop Turei, who has Ngati Porou and Whanau a Apanui affiliations, was born in 1924 in Opotiki, to the Waititi whanau, and was whangaied to the Turei whanau in Cape Runaway, on the East Cape.
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