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Story: Pacific churches in New Zealand

Archdeacon Taimalelagi Fagamalama Tuatagaloa-Leota

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Archdeacon Taimalelagi Fagamalama Tuatagaloa-Leota

New Zealand-based Pacific churches have been more open to change than some of the churches with a parent church in the Pacific Islands. Within Protestant churches this has included ordaining women as ministers. Here Archdeacon Taimalelagi Fagamalama Tuatagaloa-Leota celebrates the Eucharist at a memorial service to victims of the 2009 Samoan tsunami, held in the Ekalesia Agelekana (Anglican church) in Māngere, Auckland.

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Cluny Macpherson, Pacific churches in New Zealand – Change and adaptation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/26737/archdeacon-taimalelagi-fagamalama-tuatagaloa-leota (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Cluny Macpherson, published 21 February 2011.