Te Hāhi Tūhauwiri

The Yearly Meeting of Aotearoa/New Zealand (Te Hāhi Tūhauwiri) is the umbrella body and Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in New Zealand.[1]

Quakers have a long history of involvement in New Zealand. The Quaker Sydney Parkinson was on James Cook's first voyage; other Quakers visited or settled before the first regular Meeting for Worship in Nelson in 1843. New Zealand Friends formed a Yearly Meeting, independent of the London Yearly Meeting, in 1964.

Monthly meetings under the care of the Yearly Meeting in New Zealand include Northern, Mid-North Island, Palmerston North, Whanganui, Taranaki, Kapiti, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. In the 2018 Census, 954 people stated their religion as "Religious Society of Friends (Quaker)".[2]

References
  1. "Yearly Meeting". quaker.org.nz. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  2. "Religious affiliation (total responses)". Stats NZ. New Zealand Government. Retrieved 25 September 2023.


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