Te Pīhopatanga o Aotearoa

Te Pīhopatanga o Aotearoa is an Anglican regional bishopric or diocese (Māori: Tikanga), that covers the entire country of New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa).

The diocese is home to Māori Anglicans across Aotearoa (New Zealand), and is one of the three Tikanga (cultural streams) of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia.

The first Māori bishop was appointed in 1928, and the Pīhopatanga itself was established by General Synod as an autonomous body in 1978.

The Māori tikanga of the church is headed by Don Tamihere, Te Pīhopa o Aotearoa / Bishop of Aotearoa and Te Pīhopa o Te Tairāwhiti / Bishop of Tairāwhiti; Tamihere is the sixth Pīhopa o Aotearoa, succeeding the late Archbishop Brown Turei.

[1] From an original position where these hui were mere divisions of Te Pīhopatanga, they have developed to "Episcopal Unit" status not incomparable to the "New Zealand dioceses" (whereby each hui amorangi pīhopa is Licensing Bishop {i.e.