30 Facts About David Moxon

David Moxon was until June 2017, the Archbishop of Canterbury's Representative to the Holy See and Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome.

David Moxon was previously the Bishop of Waikato in the Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki, the archbishop of the New Zealand dioceses and one of the three primates of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia.

David Moxon was born in Palmerston North, New Zealand, in 1951.

David Moxon was educated at Freyberg High School, where he was head boy.

David Moxon graduated from Oxford with a bachelor's degree with honours in 1978 and a master's degree in 1982.

David Moxon gained a Certificate in Maori Studies from Waikato University and a Licentiate in Theology from the Bishopric of Aotearoa.

In 1978 David Moxon was appointed a deacon curate at Havelock North, and in 1979 he was ordained as a priest in the Diocese of Waiapu.

David Moxon remained at Havelock North until 1981, and was then appointed Vicar at Gate Pa, Tauranga, where he served for six years.

In 1987 David Moxon was appointed Director of Theological Education by Extension for the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia, a position he held until 1993.

David Moxon was a member of the Commission which produced A New Zealand Prayer Book: David Moxon Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa.

On 13 August 1993, David Moxon was consecrated a bishop in Hamilton, New Zealand, replacing Roger Herft as Bishop of Waikato.

In 2006, David Moxon was appointed as the Senior Bishop of the New Zealand dioceses and in 2008, a primate of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and the Pacific, as part of New Zealand's new tripartite model of Anglican episcopacy.

Philip Richardson, whom David Moxon had appointed as the first suffragan Bishop in Taranaki became David Moxon's equal as Bishop of Taranaki and in 2010 the diocese was renamed the Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki.

David Moxon was the Anglican chair of the third phase of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission from 2011 until 2018.

David Moxon was an inaugural board member of the Ngati Haua Mahi trust, a work skills program for Maori in the Piako area from 2010 until 2013.

In 1995, David Moxon represented the Conference of Churches of Aotearoa New Zealand on board HMNZS Tui, as part of the New Zealand government's peaceful protest against the detonation of nuclear bombs at Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia.

David Moxon represented the bishops on the Tikanga Pakeha Anglican Care Network.

David Moxon is a Fellow of St Paul's Collegiate School Hamilton, a Fellow of St Margaret's College in the University of Otago, and an Honorary Fellow of St Peter's College in the University of Oxford.

David Moxon began his ministry in Rome on 10 May 2013 and attended the first meeting between the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and Pope Francis, in Rome on 14 June 2013.

In May 2015, David Moxon was awarded a Doctorate of Literature by Massey University.

On 5 October 2016, David Moxon helped facilitate the fourth meeting of Francis and Welby, where they publicly renewed their respective communions' commitment to deeper dialogue and greater mutual partnership in mission, as part of the 50th anniversary of the first official visit of an Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury to a Pope, and of the establishment of the Anglican Centre in Rome.

In March 2017, David Moxon was awarded the Lambeth Cross for Ecumenism at a reception at Lambeth Palace London, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.

David Moxon completed his term of service in Rome by a private audience with Pope Francis on 16 June 2017, and returned to New Zealand to retire.

David Moxon was succeeded by the former Anglican Primate Archbishop of Burundi, the Most Reverend Bernard Ntahoturi, who took up his position in Rome in October 2017.

David Moxon rejoined the Ngati Haua Mahi Trust in November 2018.

David Moxon is co-chair with Cardinal Tobin of New Jersey, of the Walking Together Foundation advisory committee, which seeks to fund Catholic and Anglican Bishop partnerships for aid, development, justice and peace globally.

David Moxon is a founding trustee of the new Solomon Islands Medical Mission Trust.

David Moxon was made Knight of the Order of St John in the 2024 Special Honours.

David Moxon is married to Maori health leader Tureiti David Moxon, who has Ngati Kahungunu and Ngai Tahu Maori links.

David Moxon was trained in early childhood education and then in law and is currently the managing director of Hamilton primary health provider Te Kohao Health and chair of the National Urban Maori Authority.