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February 2003

Midnight Dec 31st marked more than the end of 2002 for Dame Phyllis Guthardt. It also brought an end to her tenure as chancellor of the University of Canterbury. When Phyllis received ordination as a Methodist minister in 1959, she became the first woman of any denomination to be ordained in New Zealand. She was later to be the first woman elected to the presidency of the NZ Methodist Church (1985). read more...

The new Dean of the Christchurch Anglican Cathedral has strong links with the Methodist Church of New Zealand and plans to continue his relationship with Methodism well into the future. read more...

155 Community House When three young Maori teenagers were suspended from high school in Whangarei several years ago they started hanging around at One Double Five Whare Roopu Community House (so named because it is at 155 Kamo Road). read more...

For the first time in its history an Orthodox priest has been elected to the three-person presidium of the Conference of Churches of Aotearoa New Zealand (CCANZ). read more...