Philip Richardson (bishop)

The Most Reverend Philip Richardson
Bishop of Taranaki and Archbishop of New Zealand
Church	Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
Diocese	Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki
See	Taranaki
In office	1999–present (Taranaki) May 2013–present (archbishop)
Predecessor	David Moxon (as archbishop)
Other posts	suffragan Bishop in Taranaki (1999–2008)

Philip Richardson is a New Zealand Anglican bishop. Since 2008, he has been the Bishop of Taranaki; one of two co-equal diocesan bishops of the Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki. Since 2013, he has also been the Archbishop of New Zealand; this makes him one of the three Co-Primates of the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia.^[1]^[2]^[3] From 1999 until 2008, he was the suffragan Bishop in Taranaki under the diocesan Bishop of Waikato in the then-Diocese of Waikato.

References

↑ "The beginning of the story...". The Bishop’s Action Foundation. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
↑ "New Archbishop 'a community visionary'". Anglican Tonga. 23 March 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
↑ "New Anglican Archbishop named". Taranaki Daily News. 23 March 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2016.

Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by himself	Bishop of Taranaki 1999–2008 Suffragan to Bishop of Waikato 2008 - present Co-Diocesan	Incumbent
Preceded by David Moxon	Archbishop of New Zealand 2013 to present	Incumbent

Bishops of Waikato and of Taranaki

Waikato (sole diocesan)	Cecil Cherrington John Holland Allen Johnston Brian Davis Roger Herft David Moxon Philip Richardson, suffragan Bishop in Taranaki

Waikato & Taranaki (co-equal diocesans)	David Moxon (Waikato) Philip Richardson (Taranaki) Helen-Ann Hartley (Waikato)

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