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Retired priest with Permission to Officiate and Diocesan AMUA Prayer and Spirituality Coordinator

The Rev'd Eleanor Mancini

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The Rev’d Eleanor Mancini is a retired priest with Permission to Officiate, who worships at St John’s Cathedral (where she is President of the Cathedral Mothers Union branch) and with the Tongan Anglican Worshipping Community in New Farm. She has a Bachelor of Theology from Auckland University and a Master of Theology from Sydney College Divinity.

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Articles by The Rev'd Eleanor

Archbishop Phillip Aspinall on his visit to St Margaret’s Anglican Church at Sandgate in August 2018, chatting with members of the Tongan Anglican Worshipping Community, The Rev’d Eleanor Mancini (second from left) and the Lo’amanu family, who welcomed the Ministry of the Word in the hospitable Tongan tradition of song and dance
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Priest and bishop’s daughter translates liturgy into Tongan

“It is so important for people to worship in their vernacular because worship and life are the same. They are God’s gifts. We worship in the language that God has gifted us,” says The Rev’d Eleanor Mancini