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The Taranaki Daily News featured The Cathedral Project last weekend and it was great being front and centre of Saturday's paper. You can read all about it here. As well as some more details about the project it was great to see the amazing work of the Community Café profiled. Manaakitanga in action it was called! Such a great community hub with volunteers that front up day after day! Reporter Deena Coster who wrote the feature also took some time to... read more

Cathedral Cakes are returning as Taranaki Cathedral’s team of home bakers prepare a limited run of the popular Christmas treats. A batch of the 750 gram Cathedral Cakes, named because their multi-coloured fruit echoes the stained glass windows of church cathedrals, sold out last year. All proceeds from the cakes will support the restoration of Taranaki Cathedral’s stained glass windows, part of the $15m project designed to strengthen the historic cathedral. Sensitive site developments will transform Taranaki Cathedral into a significant... read more

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We are delighted to announce a special package deal on our Taranaki Cathedal designer tea towels ahead of the Christmas rush. Excellent for display, as a collectors item or even if you are planning on conducting a PhD (Polishing Heaps of Dishes) Available from Taranaki Cathedral or at Stop-In. read more

Thanks so much to everyone who took came and enjoyed The Great Cathedral Gala over the weekend. The Gala raised $5700 for the mission and minsitry of Taranaki Cathedral, and hundreds of people enjoyed themselves in the process. Thanks so much to all those who donated good, prepared food, organised games or otherwise helped out to make the day a success. read more

Sermon Preached by Archdeacon Trevor Harrison on 8 September 2019 Luke 14:25-33 Around 11.30pm on 14 April 1912 the Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean. The radio operator sent out a distress signal giving the ship’s position before it disastrously sank. The signal was picked up by an aging steam vessel called the Carpathia. The captain immediately recognised the enormity of the situation and the desperate peril of the Titanic passengers. In a frantic bid to get... read more

Our Great Cathedral Gala is gearing up again this year on Saturday 21 September. A regular highlight of the spring second-hand season, this classic fundraiser and family event has some new twists to it this year. It will run from 9am-1pm at Taranaki Cathedral’s Peace Hall and Hatherly Hall. Hot food will be served fresh in the Hatherly Hall including and there will be Devonshire Teas, home baking and plenty of quality jams and chutneys for sale. The Peace Hall... read more

Have you heard the news about the pews? We are in the process of contacting people with family links to a Taranaki Cathedral pew to buy one as part of our exciting site development project. Find out what is happening and how to register your interest here Watch Bryan Vickery from Hokonui talk to Communications Adviser Andrew Moffat about the pews here Our months long search for potential family buyers finishes on 20 September. The pews will then be made available... read more

We had a great time sharing more visuals and details about The Cathedral Project today with some of our kids, Archbishop Philip Richardson and architect Jennie Goddard. Thanks everyone for coming along, it was great to hear the questions and excitement around the project. The pizza was pretty good too. read more

Kia ora koutou Please click this LINK to read The Cathedral Chronicle featuring a quick roundup of happenings large and small at Taranaki Cathedral. read more