Muru Walters

Muru Walters (born 16 January 1935) is a New Zealand author, master carver, broadcaster, artist, former rugby union player and Māori Anglican bishop.[1] He was the first Pīhopa (bishop) of Te Pīhopatanga o Te Upoko o Te Ika from his consecration on 7 March 1992 until his retirement in 2018.[2]

Walters in 2012

Walters was born in Kaitaia.[3] He affiliates to the Te Rarawa and Te Aupōuri iwi.[1] A talented rugby player, Walters represented New Zealand Māori, and won the Tom French Cup for the Māori rugby union player of the year in 1957.[4] He studied at Auckland Teachers' College. After working in arts and crafts education in schools, he became a lecturer in art at Dunedin Teachers' College. In 1980 Walters completed a master's degree on Māori archaeology at the University of Otago.[5] He was later a lecturer in Māori Studies at St John's Theological College in Auckland.[3] In October 2020 Walters was made a Life Fellow of Selwyn College Dunedin.[6]

References
  1. "Bishop Muru Walters". Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  2. ACANZP Lectionary, 2019 (p. 145)
  3. "Muru Walters". Kōmako: a bibliography of writing by Māori in English. University of Canterbury. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  4. "Muru Walters". Penguin Books. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  5. Walters, Muru (1980). An investigation of archaeology in New Zealand as a means of establishing views about the past (Masters thesis). OUR Archive, University of Otago. hdl:10523/8863.
  6. "Anglican Taonga : New Zealand's Anglican News Leader".


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