Please Note : This register is solely an historical data base. The official Register for those ministers and overseas workers currently serving in the Presbyterian Church may be located on the Presbyterian Church web site.

A Register of NZ Presbyterian Ministers was apparently first compiled and kept by the Rev WJ Comrie from the early 1900's up to the 1930's.

From about 1920, the Very Rev W.W. Howes commenced compiling his own comprehensive alphabetical resource of information on Presbyterian Ministers. This he intended to eventually type out and present to the Church Office. Upon learning of this resource in 1938, the Rev Ian Fraser offered his personal assistance in the completion and publication of a register both for Church purposes and to mark the Centennial celebrations of the Dominion and of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand in 1940. The Rev WJ Comrie made a number of corrections to the draft manuscript from his own records. An additional Roll of Honour was also included of Theological Students, Ministers, Home Missionaries, Sons, Daughters, Wives and Brothers of the Manse, who had served and/or made the ultimate sacrifice during the "Great War" of 1914-18. The new 1940 Register was then typed in triplicate by Mrs HL Wilkinson with the assistance of Mr EJ Ward of the Presbyterian Book Room and finally personally bound in green Levant Morocco leather for Exhibition purposes by the Rev Ian Fraser.

From 1973 up until 1990, the Very Rev. Dr. Ian Fraser alone undertook the immense task of correcting and updating the initial entries while adding those Ministers, Home Missionaries, Deaconesses and overseas Missionaries ordained since 1940. He personally typed, printed and bound a new Register in 1989. Subsequent to the introduction of word processors, he methodically and painstakingly re-typed all the information into a computer database from which this current register was initially created.

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• We are able to undertake further research on any individual listed in this register. For details, please refer to the section at the bottom of this page or click here.
• For a biographical listing of New Zealand and South Pacific based Anglican clergy who may have served in early Union or co-operating Parishes, please click HERE (This is a large PDF file).

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Last Major Update : 2009 (Minor amendments are actioned as we receive them)

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Abbott to Amosa	Anderson to Ayers	Backhouse to Bates
Bathgate to Biggs	Billinghurst to Bowie	Bowman to Brown
Browne to Byrt	Cairney to Carter	Cartwright to Clark
Clarke to Coulter	Court to Cuttle	Dabourne to Dewar
Dewes to Doull	Dow to Dyson	Eade to Eyre
Fa'amausili to Finlayson	Finnemore to France	Francesco to Fussell
Galbraith  to Gillies	Gilliland to Grant	Grätzer to Gwynne
Hadfield to Hart	Harvey to Herd	Herron to Hooker
Hope to Hyslop	Ikitoelagi to Ives	Jack to Johnson
Johnston to Jupp	Kaarup to Kimber	King to Kyd
Lafferty to Lewis	Lewitt to Lynds	McAdam to McDowell
McEldowney to McKendry	McKenzie to McKirdy	McLachlan to McLennan
McLeod to McWilliam	Mabon to Matheson	Mathew to Miller-Keeley
Millichamp to More	Morgan to Mushet	Naerea to Nikora
Nisbet to Nummy	O to Owen	Paea to Paulin
Paviour-Smith to Poi Poi	Pollard to Pyper	Queale to Quigley
Rae to Reith	Rennie to Robertson	Robins to Ross
Rothwell to Ryu	Sadler to Shannon	Shastri to Smaill
Smale to Spence	Spencer to Stewart	Stiles to Symons
Taft to Thomas	Thompson to Todd	Tofilau to Tylee
Uden to Usmar	Vagana to Vowell	Waddell to Watene
Waters to Weir	Welch to Will	Willets to Wilson
Winiata to Wyness	Xowie to Yuzon

Additional Research :

We are happy to undertake additional research on any individual listed in this register but subject always to our normal research charges and the provisions of the Privacy Act. The information quoted here may be all that was available when this register was originally created, however additional information may now be available. In many cases the amount of information may be considerable. We also hold a very large collection of photographs of Ministers, Missionaries and Deaconesses dating back to 1861. We will search our photographic database, which includes original and published images, at no charge.

We also hold Old Ministerial Registers which give information on Ministers originally from :

• The Church of Scotland (all dates to 1975)
• The Free Church of Scotland (1843 to 1900)
• The United Presbyterian Church of Scotland (1733 to 1900)
• The Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland
• The Australian Presbyterian Church (to 1901 only)
• The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (1898 only)

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