Bishop Winston Halapua was elected May 12 to serve as the next bishop of Polynesia -- and therefore as one of the three archbishops of the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia.
The remains of the top of the belltower at St John's Hororata.
Bishop Victoria Matthews delivers her pastoral letter during the open-air service in Cathedral Square on Sunday morning, Sept. 12.
Diocese of Christchurch Bishop Victoria Matthews called on her diocese Sept. 26 to raise $100,000 for Haiti relief as an expression of thanks and praise. Matthews is shown here just before she deconsecrated a chapel destroyed by a magnitude-7 earthquake on Sept. 4.
St. Chad's Anglican Church on the east side of Christchurch, New Zealand, is one of three pastoral-care centers (two in Anglican churches and one in a Baptist church) that the Diocese of Christchurch help to set up in the wake of the Feb. 22 earthquake.
A crushed car is parked outside Christchurch Cathedral's visitors' center, which is not the most heavily damaged part of the cathedral.
The spire of the iconic stone Christchurch Cathedral toppled into Cathedral Square in Christchurch, New Zealand Feb. 22. A magnitude-6.3 earthquake collapsed buildings at the height of a busy workday, killing at least 65 people and trapping dozens.
A member of an urban search-and-rescue team walks inside Christchurch Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Feb. 28. Christchurch was hit by a magnitude-6.3 earthquake on Feb. 22, causing major damage to the central city and surrounding suburbs.
A crane removes one side of the wall of Christchurch Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 4 to allow urban search and rescue teams to recover bodies of people still believed to be inside the building. No bodies were subsequently found. Christchurch was hit by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake on Feb. 22, causing loss of life and major damage to the central city and surrounding suburbs.
A crane removes one side of the wall of Christchurch Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 4 to allow urban search and rescue teams to recover bodies of people still believed to be inside the building. No bodies were subsequently found. Christchurch was hit by a magnitude 6.3 earthquake on Feb. 22, causing loss of life and major damage to the central city and surrounding suburbs.
Helen Gray (left) with Bishops Victoria Matthews and John Gray and Dean Peter Beck after the February quake.
Archdeacon Hone Kaa of New Zealand, one of the delegates at the Anglican Indigenous Network meeting in Vancouver, speaks at a gathering in Christ Church Cathedral.
Archbishop David Moxon, bishop of Waikato and co-presiding bishop in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, addresses a July 30 news briefing at the Lambeth Conference.
Archbishop Whakahuihui Vercoe