Te Manu hononga: SIR PAUL REEVES CENTRE

Taranaki Cathedral is home to Te Manu Hononga: Sir Paul Reeves Centre, providing education focused on reconciliation and bi-cultural partnership by healing the oldest grief in our nation - the disconnect between Māori and European ways of being, and the social and environmental impacts that are created as a consequence.

We aspire to nurture a new generation of Māori and Tāngata Tiriti (people of the treaty), who are passionate for active peacemaking in the earth.

Te Manu Hononga is a work of Taranaki Cathedral, with offices and education spaces located on the first floor of the renovated vicarage.

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LEARNING TOPICS OFFERED WITHIN THREE STREAMS:
Atua: nature of Creator & trinitarian relationship within all things
Whenua: our symbiotic relationship with land
Tangata: incarnational living, worldviews & cultural identity

Korōria ki te Atua i runga rawa,
maungārongo ki te whenua,
whakaaro pai ki ngā tāngata katoa.
Glory to God in the highest,
peace on earth,
goodwill to all people

Te Manu Hononga was established in the honour of Sir Paul Reeves (Te Ātiawa), who was the first Māori Archbishop and Māori Governor-General of New Zealand. Sir Paul was known as he manu hononga – a bird that binds together. It is a picture of his life and work in bringing people and contexts into unity. As a Māori person and Anglican minister, his spirituality and his theological underpinnings empowered his creative leadership into the places of his whakapapa and into places beyond our shores, such as Fiji, South Africa, Ghana, Guyana and the United Nations.