Story: Gender inequalities

Archdeacon Taimalelagi Fagamalama Tuatagaloa-Leota

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 in the Ekalesia Agelekana (Anglican church) in Māngere, Auckland.

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Anne Else, 'Gender inequalities - Religion', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/46873/archdeacon-taimalelagi-fagamalama-tuatagaloa-leota (accessed 26 April 2024)

Story by Anne Else, published 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 20 Jun 2018