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Diocese of Polynesia | |
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Location | |
Country | Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, American Samoa |
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Cathedral | Holy Trinity Cathedral, Suva |
Current leadership | |
Parent church | Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia |
Bishop and co-primate | Sione Uluʻilakepa |
Assistant bishops | Gabriel Sharma (Viti Levu West) Henry Bull (Vanua Levu and Taveuni) |
Dean | Orisi Vuki |
Archdeacons | Famausili Chris Solomona Taimalelagi Fagamalama Tuatagaloa-Leota Kensington Fifita Henry Rogo Orisi Vuki Henry Manulevu |
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The Diocese of Polynesia, or the Tikanga Pasefika serves Anglicans in Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and the Cook Islands, within the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The diocese's first bishop was consecrated in 1908. The diocese's cathedral is Holy Trinity Cathedral in Suva, Fiji.
Polynesia is a diocese, and its Bishop is automatically accorded the style archbishop and the formal prefix Most Reverend. Under the new model of leadership now adopted by the Anglican Church in New Zealand, the Bishop of Polynesia is automatically one of the three co-presiding bishops and archbishops. Each of these three is metropolitan archbishop to his respective tikanga, and informally they also share the primacy, although in practice they are required to elect one of their number to be the formal Primate, and serve on the international Anglican Communion Primates' Meeting.