The church has always had a presence in our community and plays a vibrant role in the city’s culture. We aim to strengthen our presence through The Cathedral Project: A Taranaki Taonga. Understanding our past to build our future.
Holy Week and Easter Services 2023

Palm Sunday 2nd April 9am Traditional Eucharist with Choir. Peace Hall 10:30am Contemporary Eucharist with Sunday School (starting with morning tea). Peace Hall Tuesday 4th April 7.45am Contemplative Eucharist Upper Rm Chapel, Hatherly Hall Wednesday 5th April 10:00am Eucharist from The 1662 Book of Common Prayer Peace Lounge Maunday Thursday 6th April 4pm Chrism Mass and Ordination service Peace Hall 8pm Commemoration of the Last Supper followed by Tennebrae service Peace Hall Good Friday 7th April 2pm Good Friday Service... read more

Parish AGM 2022

Parish AGM The plan is for the Parish AGM to be held on the 18th September, right after the 10am service, Peace Hall, 11:15pm The description of the planned Taranaki Cathedral Kōkiri Team as presented at the forum, is included below. Taranaki Cathedral Kōkiri Team The 2021 Synod of the Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki, in Bill Number 1, suspended clauses 11 to 18 of Statute 14, THE WAIKATO DIOCESAN CATHEDRALS STATUTE 2006. This suspension enabled Standing Committee to establish a... read more

Nau mai, haere mai, welcome to the website of The Taranaki Cathedral Church of St Mary. We are a warm, friendly and loving church community. A people and a place of prayer, peace and reconciliation.
We apologise that a lot of our content is out of date and we need to make some major updates to our website.

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This post is to provide a link to the following facebook pages Taranki Cathedral Facebook Stop In Manger recognised Alt-Mary on facebook. Te Manu Hononga (Sir Paul Reeves Centre) Rev Dans tumblr blog Strategy collectives video for Jay read more

Christmas 2021 At Taranaki Cathedral

Here’s what’s coming up over in the lead-up to Christmas at Mere Tapu Festival of 9 Lessons & Carols – Wednesday 22nd, 7:30pm, Interim Cathedral Christmas Eve Family Picnic – Friday 24th, noon, Pūkākā (bouncy castle, games, music) Midnight Mass – Friday 24th, 11pm, Interim Cathedral (Archbishop Philip preaching) Christmas Day Service – Saturday 25th, 8am & 10am, Interim Cathedral (Archbishop Philip preaching & presiding) Sunday Service – Sunday 26th – Regular Sunday Service, 9am, Interim Cathedral All of these... read more

Dec 5th In-Person Worship Cancelled

In-person services scheduled for Sunday Decemeber 5th (8am, 10am and 5pm ALT_Mary) are CANCELLED. In the past 24 hours positive COVID-19 cases have been identified in areas where Taranaki Cathedral kamahi live. As this is a developing situation, with contact tracing still underway to identify locations of interest, we believe it is prudent to cancel this weekend's in-person services. We are hopeful that we will be able to gather again next weekend. You can find more information about how we are... read more

Life At Taranaki Cathedral Under The COVID-19 Protection Framework

Aotearoa NZ is now using the Covid-19 Protection Framework or “Traffic Light System”. No doubt you will be coming to terms with what this means for many aspects of your life. The following breaks down how things will play out at Taranaki Cathedral. Before we start though, we want to be clear that we support your individual right to choose. Unvaccinated people are still very welcome to be part of our parish. However, because of the nature of the COVID-19 virus... read more

Special Events

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Diary

  • 28May

    9am Eucharist Service
    10:30am 11am service

  • 29May

    3:30pm Bellringers Practice

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"Taranaki Cathedral : A Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, and a member of the Worldwide Community of the Cross of Nails."

Meet Our Team

Jay Ruka

Dean of the Cathedral and Director of The Paul Reeves Centre

Christopher Luke

Director of Music

Jenny Goddard

Cathedral Remediation & Development Manager

Dan Lander

Priest
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