Reply from Archbishop of Canterbury to my first letter.
My Thesis: Protons and Neutrons are Atoms
Myeply from Archbishop to first letter.
HRH Queen Elizabeth II,
Archbishop of Canterbury,
Archbishop of Aotearoa,
To Whom it May Concern.
New Zealand
The church has decided that three bishops shall share the position and style of Archbishop, each representing one of the three tikanga. The three Archbishops sharing the title of Archbishop of New Zealand are: The Most Reverend William Brown Turei, Bishop of Aotearoa, the head of Te Pīhopatanga o Aotearoa, which oversees churches for the indigenous Māori people of New Zealand.); The Most Reverend David Moxon, Bishop of Waikato, representing the Dioceses in New Zealand; and The Most Reverend Winston Halapua, Bishop of Polynesia.
The Archbishop of New Zealand is the primate, or head, of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. However, since Whakahuihui Vercoe stepped down at the end of his two-year term as archbishop in 2006, the church has decided that three bishops shall share the position and style of archbishop, each representing one of the three tikanga, or cultural streams of the church: Te Pihopatanga o Aotearoa (the Bishopric of Aotearoa, serving Maori), the Dioceses in New Zealand (serving Pakeha) and the Diocese of Polynesia.
Pākehā is a Māori language word for New Zealanders who are "of European descent".[1] They are mostly descended from British and to a lesser extent Irish settlers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, although some Pākehā have Dutch, Scandinavian, German, Yugoslav or other ancestry.
Some find it highly offensive, others are indifferent, some find it
inaccurate and archaic, while some happily use the term and find the
main alternatives such as New Zealand European inappropriate. Personally I find it highly offensive, because it originally meant fair skinned foreigners who were fit only to be eaten. I'm a fifth generation New Zealander who was born here and has no other country. My schools were the same that every other person attended, and there is no need to bring my race into any argument, or refer to me as "European".
My plan is to build a Cathedral for Christchurch in the shape of an aircraft carrier, or of the South Island.
The bridge superstructure will represent the Port Hills, which Captain Cook mapped as an island. The material from the destroyed cathedral can be reused to form the base of the bell-tower, and as such could look like an ancient castle.
