Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
Richard Ellena | |
Bishop of Nelson | |
Church: | Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia |
Diocese: | Nelson |
Predecessor: | Derek Eaton |
Successor: | Steve Maina |
Ordination: | 1985 |
Consecration: | 2007 |
Birth Date: | 1951 |
Victor Richard Ellena (born 15 January 1951 in Christchurch) is a New Zealand Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Nelson[1] between 3 February 2007 and his retirement at the end of 2018.
He was educated at the University of Canterbury after which he worked as a teacher until studying for the Priesthood. He was ordained an Anglican priest in 1985 and has held incumbencies at Kensington-Otipua,[2] Blenheim and Marlborough, where he was also the area's Archdeacon.[3]
He was consecrated bishop of the Diocese of Nelson at 3 February 2007.[4] An Evangelical Anglican, he is a supporter of the Anglican realignment, having attended the Global South Fourth Encounter, in Singapore, at 19–23 April 2010, and the GAFCON II, in Nairobi, Kenya, at 21–26 October 2013.[5]