Wai Quayle


Waitohiariki Quayle is a Māori Anglican bishop. Since 2019, she has served as Bishop of Upoko o Te Ika in the Te Pīhopatanga o Aotearoa. This makes her the first female Māori bishop in the Anglican Church, and the first woman born in New Zealand to become a bishop in the Anglican Communion.
Having been ordained a deacon in 2013 and a priest in 2014, she was Archdeacon of Wairarapa from 2015 to 2019.