The Diocesan Council welcomes you to the website of the Diocese of Auckland. The Diocese covers the area stretching from North Cape down to the Waikato River, across the Hauraki Plains and including the Coromandel Peninsula.
Within this area you will find over 90 Anglican parishes, mission districts and Local Shared Ministry Units. In addition there are many associated agencies such as City Mission, Anglican Trust for Women and Children and Selwyn Foundation. Anglican clergy serve as chaplains in schools, hospitals, prisons, universities and military establishments.
None of these ministry units and other organisations would be able to operate without the thousands of hours given so freely by volunteers.
We hope the website provides you with the information you need.
Latest News
The Anglican Consultative Council
The Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) will be holding its 15th meeting in Auckland from 27 October to 7 November 2012. The ACC is a representative body for all the Provinces of the Anglican Communion. Every Member Church or Province elects representatives, and the number of those representatives depends on the size of each Church. So Provinces which have more than one million members elect three people, a bishop, a priest or deacon, and a lay person. Our own Church elects two members. The ACC is one of the four ‘instruments of communion’ in the Anglican Communion. The other three are: The Lambeth Conference of Bishops; The Primates’ Meeting; the Archbishop of Canterbury. When the ACC meets there are also a number of ecumenical guests present, normally as representatives of the major ecumenical dialogues in which the Anglican Communion is involved internationally. Download further information here (PDF, 71kb)
CWS Appeal - Sahel Crisis
Christian World Service have issued an appeal for funds to help avert an impending disaster in the Sahel, a region of West Africa.
Please go to www.cws.org.nz for further information on this crisis (donations can be made via the CWS website).
News from around the Diocese
Rangitahi artwork on display on facebook
The artwork produced at last week's art wananga, held during Tai Tokerau's Hui Amorangi, as well as the art made last year in Dargaville, now each have their own facebook page. read article
Thank you for your support - Oxfam Trailwalker
'For All the Saints' would like to formally acknowledge your support to the recent Oxfam Trailwalker 2012. We are very pleased to advise that the team has successfully completed the 100km course. We are thankful to God for blessing us with the strength and determination to take part in this gruelling event. Additionally, we are able to make a contribution towards alleviating poverty and social injustices. 'For All the Saints' congratulates all 246 teams that participated. read article
Youth worker loses dreadlocks for good cause
Saturday 31 saw the end of March, and the end of North Shore youthworker/singer/songwriter Brittany Kusserow’s dreadlocks. At 7pm in Albany’s Holy Cross Church the singer hosted her ‘Concert and Cut’ event to raise money for Leukaemia and Blood Cancer New Zealand. Brittany entertained the crowds with songs ranging from her debut album Leaving My Mark to her recent work. She then yielded to the scissors of those who had reserved a dreadlock, before offering chopping rights to everyone else for $20 a dreadlock. The project is still going on; the remaining dreadlocks are now up for auction on Trademe. read article
Christchurch's Anglican Bishop puts challenge to better serve the elderly
Speaking at the 2012 Services for Older People conference - held on 29-30 March in Wellington - the Anglican Bishop of Christchurch, Bishop Victoria Matthews, expressed a concern that the elderly frail of that city could have been served better during the city’s earthquake-ridden times.
Referring to the unprecedented need to move elderly people away from the city, “a number of whom have since died”, Bishop Matthews queried whether alternative emergency responses could have been made that were less traumatic. “The question now is how can we serve their memory well as we move into the future?” read article
St John's Hampton Park celebrates 150th birthday
One of Auckland’s least known but most beautiful little churches – St John’s of Hampton Park, East Tamaki – celebrated its 150th birthday over the weekend of March 9-11.
150 guests came from the UK, Australia, the South and North islands for the three day event – a welcome “soiree” on Friday evening, guided walks through Hampton Park on Saturday and a special commemorative service on Sunday. read article and view photo gallery here