Right Reverend Manuhuia "Manu" Augustus Bennett ONZ CMG (10 February 1916 – 20 December 2001) was a New Zealand Anglican Bishop in the second half of the 20th century.
[1][2] He was born in Rotorua on 10 February 1916 into an ecclesiastical family: his father Frederick Augustus Bennett was the inaugural Bishop of Aotearoa.
[4] Educated at the University of Hawaiʻi and ordained in 1940, he was a Curate in the Diocese of Waiapu before becoming a Chaplain to the New Zealand Forces.
Later he was Vicar of St Faith's Rotorua[5] before being appointed Suffragan Bishop of Aotearoa in 1951.
[6] In 1977, Bennett was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal.