Te Hui Amorangi ki Te Tairawhiti

Diocese of Te Tairāwhiti Te Pīhopatanga o Te Tairāwhiti
Coat of arms
Location
Territory	East Coast, New Zealand
Ecclesiastical province	The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
Headquarters	Gisborne
Statistics
Parishes	30
Information
Denomination	Anglican
Established	1834
Language	Maori, English
Current leadership
Parent church	Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
Bishop	Donald Steven Tamihere
Website
tairawhiti.org.nz

Te Pihopatanga o Te Tairāwhiti (the bishopric of the east coast; aka Te Hui Amorangi..., lit. the synod...) is an Episcopal polity (or Diocese) of Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia in Tairāwhiti.

The Pīhopatanga serves communities on the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island – from Potaka in the North, to Woodville in the South. In general this covers the Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Kahungunu and the Turanga-nui-a-kiwa iwi. According to the 2013 census^[update], there are approximately 17,000 Māori Anglicans within this area.

The current Pīhopa o (Bishop of) Te Tairāwhiti is Donald Tamihere.

Te Tairāwhiti is one of five Episcopal Units that comprise Te Pīhopatanga o Aotearoa.

There are five rohe (ministry units) within Te Tairāwhiti:

Te Tairāwhiti has around 30 parishes (pariha) spread across four rohe.

The Pīhopatanga is also home to two Māori Anglican boarding schools, Te Aute College and Hukarere Girls' College.

Archbishop Brown Turei was elected as the first Pīhopa o Te Tairāwhiti (Bishop of Te Tairāwhiti) in 1992. Turei was also Te Pīhopa o Aotearoa (Head of the Māori Anglican Church) and Archbishop of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa-New Zealand and Polynesia. Turei had planned to retire as Bishop in March 2017 but he died on January 9, 2017. At 92, Brown was the oldest Primate in the Anglican Communion.

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