Bishop Te Kitohi (“Kito”) Wiremu Pikaahu, ONZM, "Christian/Māori identity in the 21st Century"

Evening Keynote Address, Wānanga-Symposium, Waitangi, 17 November 2023
BIO
Bishop Kito has been Bishop of Te Pīhopatanga o Te Tai Tokerau (Māori Anglican bishopric) since 2002. At his consecration he was the youngest bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Bishop Kito is from Taipā in the Far North, and his family have been involved in the Anglican Church since his great-great grandfather was converted in 1837 at the Kaitaia mission of the Church Missionary Society. Bishop Kito has led Waitangi Day services for 20 years and has advocated for the wellbeing of Māori and indigenous communities. He has promoted the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a framework for Anglican leadership. Bishop Kito is one of the world’s highest-ranking and longest-serving indigenous Anglican bishops and has chaired the global Anglican Indigenous Network since 2015. He serves on many church and community groups and boards. In the 2021 New Year Honours, Bishop Kito was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the Anglican Church and Māori.

[@ngapuhiwahinetoa]

Ataahua korereo matua🥰 Thank you great learning 😇

[@tah6243]

Te rawe Kito. I enjoyed your address. Uncle Maori said all karakia were commands. A tohunga never asked, they commanded. na TA

[@johnrualmond2176]

Thanks Kawharu Trust for this enlightening expose; Bishop Kito is an excellent, intelligent speaker and craftsman of ‘words of art’, then interpreting and presenting them as any good seller of that colour ‘snake oil’; Like Kito, We too have spent all Our life from being raised as a toddler on Rin’atu marae and then went to school and church in Central Auckland-Ponsonby-Mt Eden-Tirahou, to studying the Bible at Mt Eden, Grey Friars, then with Kawerau JWs; these organisations are occult as necessary to survive and so much salt should be liberally applied to dampen the reverb of their own echo chamber [Cf. Evidence Act 2006, s.60; New Zealand Birth Certificate, BDM107, WARNING and Caution; Electoral Act 1993, s.215; Baptismal Certificate #29];