THE PRO PATRIA PROJECT

REEVES Paul Alfred

The Right Reverend and The Honourable Sir

Past Governor General of New Zealand

CITATION

Order of New Zealand (ONZ)

Appointed on 6 February 2007 to mark the 20th Anniversary of the Institution of the Order

Sir Paul Reeves, born 1932, made an outstanding contribution to the Anglican Church and the community.  He was Primate and Archbishop of the

Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia from 1980 to 1985 and was Bishop of Waiapu in 1971.  He was ordained as a Priest in

1960, was a Lecturer in church history, and served as Director of Christian Education until 1971.

In 1985 he retired as Archbishop to accept the appointment as Governor-General of New Zealand, an office he held until 1990.  He was the first

person of Maori descent appointed to this high office.

Sir Paul held a number of national and international positions.  He was appointed as the Anglican Observer at the United Nations from 1985 to

1988 and during this period, he also assisted the Bishop of the Diocese of New York.  He served as the Deputy Leader of the Commonwealth

Observer Group to the Ghanaian elections in 1996 and was Chairperson of the Nelson Mandela Trust.  He was the Chairperson of the Fiji Constitution

Review Commission from 1995 to 1997 and was also the Commonwealth Secretary-General's Special Envoy to Guyana.  He was appointed the

inaugural Chair of Toi Te Taiao, The Bioethics Council in 2002, and was Chair of the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Trust.  He was the Visiting Montague

Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Edinburgh in 1994, visiting Professor at the University of Auckland from 1997 to 2000,

and was appointed Chancellor of the Auckland University of Technology in 2005.  He was Chair of the Tuhono Turst and Chair of Hui Taumata.

Grand Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

Appointed 12 November 1985, p15781

Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

Gazetted 15 April 1986, p5191

Knight Bachelor (KB)

Gazetted 15 June 1985, pB29

Queens Service Order (QSO)

Gazetted 1990

Companion of the Order of Fiji

Awarded

KNOWN AWARDS

Order of New Zealand (ONZ)

Grand Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)

Grand Companion of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)

Knight Bachelor (KB)

Queens Service Order (QSO)

Companion of the Order of Fiji (CF)

Queen's Jubilee Medal 1977

NOTES

Born 6 December 1932 Wellington, New Zealand

Died 14 August 2011 Auckland, New Zealand

Buried St John's Theological College, Meadowbank, Auckland