[citation needed] On 10 April 2005,[1] in a service at Suva's Holy Trinity Cathedral, he was consecrated together with Apimeleki Qiliho, who became Bishop of Vanua Levu, and Dr Winston Halapua, who was installed as Bishop of the Diocese of Polynesia, which covers New Zealand.
[1] Sharma, who hails from a farming family in the village of Korokoro in Nadroga-Navosa Province, was raised as a Hindu but converted to Christianity after meeting Ana, whom he married in 1985.
[citation needed] After the 2006 coup, Sharma told Anglicans in Sydney that Fijian Christians were praying especially that no one would be harmed.
[citation needed] Sharma said that many churchgoers in his region had been laid off as hotel visits had slumped.
He said that many people were still hopeful for a democratic resolution, but requested that Sydney Anglicans continued to pray.