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Church unity: Protestant churches' agreement

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Church unity: Protestant churches' agreement

Ministers of the Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational churches sign an agreement in Wainuiomata, near Wellington, in June 1965. The four denominations all agreed to use St Peter's Church in Glendale, Wainuiomata, for their services. Such ecumenical cooperation among the Protestant churches became more common after the Second World War.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1965/1955

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John Stenhouse, Religion and society – Religious cooperation and nation-building, 1920–1970, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28419/church-unity-protestant-churches-agreement (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by John Stenhouse, published 23 March 2011.