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Church sacraments: communion

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Church sacraments: communion

Neil Churcher, the minister of Dunedin's Knox Church, leads communion alongside church elders Janet Sym Elder and Lyndall Hancock in 1989. Churcher wears the white ecumenical alb and a cross, rather than the traditional black Genevan preaching gown and dog collar.

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Ben Schrader, Presbyterian Church – Church structure and culture, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/31085/church-sacraments-communion (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 26 April 2011, updated 1 March 2017.