Preliminary cathedral reinstatement works underway as Christchurch greets new bishop

Posted Feb 8, 2019

[Anglican Communion News Service] The new bishop of Christchurch in New Zealand, Peter Carrell, will be consecrated and installed Feb. 8 as efforts to reconstruct the earthquake damaged cathedral are finally underway. The cathedral was all but destroyed in the June 2011 earthquake. Years of dispute and legal wrangling over its future came to an end in September 2017 when the diocese agreed to rebuild the cathedral, with funding support from national and local government.

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