Ordinations

Our Family Celebration

Ordination

to Priesthood

Ordinands Blog
Danyon Morton-Chong
Danyon Morton-Chong

Danyon Morton-Chong is part of Renew Communities.

He and his wife Holly have moved to Tītahi Bay to co-lead the planting of a worshipping community.

Summary Block
This block has no content yet. Items you add to the page connected to this block will display here.
Featured

2 pm, Saturday 22nd November
Wellington Cathedral of St Paul

Ordination of Doug Rowan, Victoria and Hayden Brown, and Mark Huang to the diaconate.

Transitional Deacon Ordination

Ordinands
Doug Rowan
Doug Rowan

Doug, a lawyer and Notary Public, has been leading the Levin Parish as Bishop’s Warden in Charge since 2023. He is married to Rev Hannah Rowan and they have 2 adult children (Kat and Rebekah). He has ben committed to serving the Levin community since his arrival in 1996.

Read more →
Victoria Brown
Victoria Brown

Victoria is married to Hayden and they are a part of the Parish of Whanganui. She ministers at Christ Church Anglican, and the Lutheran Church next door to where she lives.


Read more →
Hayden Brown
Hayden Brown

Hayden, from the Parish of Whanganui, is married to Victoria, who is also being ordained. They have a young son, Augustine, and serve at Christ Church Whanganui, leading teams and running Alpha.

Read more →
Mark Huang
Mark Huang

Mark is from the Parish of Whanganui and is married to Carol with three school-aged children. He ministers in the local Anglican churches and has also been leading the Whanganui Chinese Fellowship for the past 12 years.

Read more →

  • 1:45pm - All clergy and processing wardens (you don’t need to bring your ‘wands’) are to be robed and congregating in the ambulatory for procession no later than this time. The processional order is below. Note that if you are supporting an ordinand, you are walking in with them at the invitation of the kai karanga when the service begins.

    2pm - The ordination service begins.

    Refreshments will be service after the service.

  • Clergy and Wardens will be seated in the Chancel. Archdeacons will be in the two back rows of the choir stalls.

    If anyone would like seating for those with disabilities or for wheelchair spaces to be reserved, please email the Cathedral on admin@wellingtoncathedral.org.nz so sufficient seating can be arranged.

  • Please see the attached map with parking options close to the Cathedral. If you would like to request a disability or elderly car park near the Cathedral entrance, or if your parish is bringing buses, please email the Cathedral on admin@wellingtoncathedral.org.nz or ring the Cathedral staff on 04 472 0286. 

    For both space and environmental reasons we encourage you to carpool or use public transport.

    Please be aware that the Thorndon Farmers' Market takes place Every Saturday Morning from 8.30am to 12.30pm in the Hill St carpark of Cathedral of St Paul, Thorndon, Wellington.

  • A reminder that all active clergy who hold a Covenant are expected to attend in support of their fellow clergy. All PTO, PTM and retired clergy are welcome to attend.

    Please wear an alb and red stole.

    You are only required to robe and process for the ordination part of the service. Robing areas are as follows:

    • Diocesan and visiting Clergy, and Wardens (if robing) – robe in the Byan Davis Room

    • Lay Canons: robes are in top Vestry by High Altar, Molesworth Street side.

    • Archdeacons, Clerical Canons and Bishops - robe in the Dean's Vestry.

    • Ordinands – Lady Chapel

    Processional Order

    1. Choir

    2. O+O

    3. Verger

    4. Lay Ministers & Visiting Clergy

    5. Cathedral Clergy

    6. Cathedral Canons

    7. Warden

    8. Archdeacons

    9. The Dean and Bishop’s Chaplain

    10. The Bishops

  • This service is going to be large! For this reason during the ordination itself we are limiting the number of clergy who come forward to lay hands on candidates.

    Of course you are very welcome to remain in your places and extend your hands, and form a human chain too.

Service Information