Manuhuia Bennett

{{Short description|New Zealand bishop}}

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Right Reverend Manuhuia "Manu" Augustus Bennett {{post-nominals|country=NZL|ONZ|CMG}} (10 February 1916 – 20 December 2001) was a New Zealand Anglican Bishop in the second half of the 20th century.{{cite news |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=383804 |title=Obituary: Manu Bennett |author=Cumming, Geoff |date=22 December 2001 |work=The New Zealand Herald |accessdate=19 October 2011}}[http://www.barcham.org.uk/Bennetts.htm The Bennett Family]

He was born in Rotorua on 10 February 1916 into an ecclesiastical family: his father Frederick Augustus Bennett was the inaugural Bishop of Aotearoa.“Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 {{ISBN|0-7136-3457-X}} He identified with the Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāti Rangitihi iwi.{{cite web|url=http://www.beehive.govt.nz/node/12761 |title=Dame Miraka Szazsy and the Right Reverend Manuhuia Bennett|first=Tariana|last=Turia|date=20 December 2013|publisher=New Zealand Government|accessdate=12 January 2012}} Educated at the University of Hawaiʻi and ordained in 1940, he was a Curate in the Diocese of Waiapu before becoming a Chaplain to the New Zealand Forces. When peace returned he was a Māori Missionary at Rangitīkei. Later he was Vicar of St Faith's Rotorua[http://www.stfaiths.co.nz/Disclaimer.html Church web site] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523204831/http://stfaiths.co.nz/Disclaimer.html |date=23 May 2010 }} before being appointed Suffragan Bishop of Aotearoa in 1951. He was Bishop of Aotearoa from 1968 to 1981 and a member of the Waitangi Tribunal from 1986 to 1997. He died on 20 December 2001.{{cite web|url=http://www.beehive.govt.nz/node/12741|title=Bishop Manuhuia Bennett|first=Helen|last=Clark|date=20 December 2013|publisher=Office of the Prime Minister of New Zealand|accessdate=12 January 2012}}