Muru Walters
New Zealand bishop, author, artist and rugby union player (1935–2024)
Muru Walters (16 January 1935 – 14 February 2024) was a New Zealand author, master carver, broadcaster, artist, rugby union player and Māori Anglican bishop.[1] He was the first Pīhopa (bishop) of Te Pīhopatanga o Te Upoko o Te Ika from his consecration on 7 March 1992 until his retirement in 2018.[2]
Biography
Muru Walters was born in Kaitaia.[3] He affiliated to the Te Rarawa and Te Aupōuri iwi.[1] A talented rugby player, Walters represented New Zealand Māori, and won the Tom French Cup for the Māori rugby union player of the year in 1957.[4] He studied at Auckland Teachers' College. After working in arts and crafts education in schools, he became a lecturer in art at Dunedin Teachers' College. In 1980, Walters completed a master's degree on Māori archaeology at the University of Otago.[5] He was later a lecturer in Māori Studies at St John's Theological College in Auckland.[3] In October 2020, Walters was made a Life Fellow of Selwyn College Dunedin.[6]
Walters died at his home in Mangawhai on 14 February 2024, at the age of 89.[7][8]
References
- ^ a b "Bishop Muru Walters". Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ^ ACANZP Lectionary, 2019 (p. 145)
- ^ a b "Muru Walters". Kōmako: a bibliography of writing by Māori in English. University of Canterbury. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
- ^ "Muru Walters". Penguin Books. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ^ Walters, Muru (1980). An investigation of archaeology in New Zealand as a means of establishing views about the past (Masters thesis). OUR Archive, University of Otago. hdl:10523/8863.
- ^ "Anglican Taonga : New Zealand's Anglican News Leader".
- ^ Panapa, Maioha (16 February 2024). "Kua riro te pīhopa tuatahi o Te Ūpoko o Te Ika". Te Ao Māori News. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
- ^ "Muru Walters obituary". The New Zealand Herald. 17 February 2024. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
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