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.
Words from the Cross

These are a series of Daily Blogs from Jacqui for Holy Week. 7 Words from the cross. 1. Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. Luke 23:34 read more

E-ffervescence

Welcome to E-ffervescence… named not only for the delightful word which means a collection of bubbles in a liquid (symbolizing all our little individual bubbles connected together by our Cathedral Community), but because it also denotes vivacity and enthusiasm!  The hyphen between the e and f is utilized because this is an e-mail communication! 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.

The Venerable Trevor Harrison, Vicar General.

Latest Blogs

Message from our new co-leaders.

Dear Taranaki Cathedral whānau, Peace be with you. Please find attached a letter from our new co-leaders, Jacqui and Jay, and our Bishop. Also attached is a service sheet for a simple Service of the Word which Jacqui and Dan recorded earlier in the week. The video of the service will be available on the Taranaki Cathedral Facebook page, and website at 10am this Sunday morning. It is our humble online offering to you all in this challenging time of... read more

Important notice regarding Cathedral Services and the Corono-19 virus.

All sevices on the 22nd will be non-eucharist. We will hold short services of prayer at 8.00am, 9.00am and 10.15am for our country and world as we face the COVID-19 crisis. Following the PMs declaration on Saturday 21 March at midday of a level 2 situation, requesting at risk groups to remain at home, which includes those over 70 years and those with other respiratory or health conditions, we also request our parishoners in those groups to remain at home. It... read more

JOINT ARCHBISHOPS' STATEMENT ON COVID-19

The Archbishops and Bishops of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand have together made the decision to suspend all public services of worship until further notice. This suspension will take effect following those services being held this coming Sunday 22 March. read more

Important - Services and Covid-19 virus.

In response to the Government restriction on gatherings of more than 100 people we will this Sunday 22nd March, offer 3 services at 8.00am, 9.00am and 10.15am restricted to 50 people at each, which will also allow for social distancing. At our services we are no longer sharing the Peace and communion will only be offered in one kind, the bread. Sunday’s Shared Lunch is cancelled. read more

Special Events

Diary

  • 05Apr

    8am Services are suspended
    10am Service of the Word via Facebook

  • 06Apr

    8:30am Morning Prayer
    3:30pm Bellringers Practice

Click here to see all events for the coming fortnight

"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 Elect

Jaqui Paterson

Dean Elect

Christopher Luke

Director of Music

Jenny Goddard

Cathedral Remediation & Development Manager

Dan Lander

Priest
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