Norman Lesser

Norman Alfred Lesser CMG (16 March 1902 – 12 February 1985[1]) was an Anglican bishop and Archbishop of New Zealand from 1961 to 1971.

He was educated at the Liverpool Collegiate Institution and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

[4] He then held similar posts at Holy Trinity, Formby and Liverpool Cathedral.

From 1931 to 1939 he was Rector and Sub-Dean of Nairobi Cathedral and from then until his elevation to the Waiapu See its Provost.

Lesser succeeded Archbishop Reginald Herbert Owen as Primate of the Anglican Church of New Zealand on his death in 1961.