[Sunday] Suva’s Holy Trinity Cathedral…[hosted a service in which] fifteen candidates to Holy Orders were ordained ”“ six to the diaconate, and nine to the priesthood.
The new priests included Brenda Reid Sio of Samoa, who became the first Pacific woman ordained to the priesthood in the Pacific.
And the deacons included Feteleni Havea, who is pioneering a congregation of Tongan Anglicans in Christchurch. They meet once a month at St Barnabas Fendalton.
The service also marked the launch of the 34th synod of the Diocese of Polynesia, and later in the afternoon, Archbishop Winston Halapua, the Bishop of Polynesia, delivered his charge, which was entitled: God’s mission-shaped diocese and moana leadership.