John Kinder was an avid watercolour artist John Kinder, best known for his photography and watercolours of New Zealand landscape, came to New Zealand selected by Bishop GA Selwyn as Headmaster of the Church of England Grammar School in Parnell, Auckland. We hold five of Kinder’s watercolours: four of St… Read More »John Kinder the Watercolour Artist
Included in the recently listed Women’s Resource Centre Archive (KIN 178) at the Library, are biographical information sheets compiled by Anglican women priests in New Zealand in the 1980’s. These excerpts by the Rev. Kathleen Lyons, give a unique insight into the life, faith and times of a remarkable woman.… Read More »In Their Own Words | Rev. Kathleen Lyons
2010 marked 25 years of Māori community worship in Sydney. In 1979, Archdeacon Kingi Ihaka celebrated Holy Communion at St Luke’s, Ranwick. There he was asked of the possibility of having a Māori priest visit Sydney occasionally, in order for Māori to be ministered to in their own cultural context.… Read More »Sydney Māori Anglican Fellowship publications
‘Ladies of the Mission’ photograph This photograph titled ‘Ladies of the Mission’ is understood to have been taken by William Beattie, a Hobart photographer on his visit to the Melanesian Mission headquarters at Norfolk Island in 1906. We are trying to identify the women in the photo. They are all… Read More »Ladies of the Mission
The Waiapu Church Times (1907-1908) and the Waiapu Church Gazette (1910-1945) were the newspapers of the Diocese of Waiapu. In 1945 the gazette merged with other diocesan newspapers to become Church and People. The issues of the Times and Gazette up to 1945 are now available on Pūmotomoto. The only… Read More »Waiapu Church Gazette
We are keen to know what the occasion is in this photograph, taken at St Stephen’s Chapel, Parnell, probably in the 1960s. Archbishop AH Johnston, Bishop JW Simkin and Bishop AK Warren lead a procession from the church and the two schoolgirls carrying wreaths may be in Diocesan School uniform.… Read More »St Stephen’s Chapel Mystery Event
Communion set owned by Rev. Charles Tisdall was gifted to the Kinder Library The Rev. Charles Archibald Tisdall was born and educated in Auckland. Tisdall studied at the University of Auckland gaining an M.A with honours in political science in 1895, and then trained at St John’s College in Parnell.… Read More »Rev. Charles Archibald Tisdall’s Communion Set
Cecil Marshall and the Charismatic Movement The John Kinder Theological Library acquired the papers of the Reverend Cecil Marshall, as part of our archive of nationally significant Anglicans. Marshall was one of the early leaders of the Charismatic Movement within the Anglican Church and from 1975 to 1980 was Director… Read More »Cecil Marshall and the Charismatic Movement
In 1870 William Leonard Williams, known as Leonard Williams to Pakeha and as Mita Renata to Māori bought some suburban sections in Gisborne where he built Te Rau Kahikatea, which became his family home from 1877 until 1894. It was also to be the nucleus of Te Rau College for… Read More »Te Rau Kahikatea College Gisborne
Bishop Selwyn’s seal came up for auction in Auckland The brass seal of Bishop George Augustus Selwyn came up for auction in Auckland. This is the same (or an identical) seal that was used by the bishop on official documents, and many wax impressions of the seal are still attached… Read More »Bishop George Augustus Selwyn’s Seal
