A new diocese & bishop for the Church of Confessing Anglicans in New Zealand

In the medieval church the Archbishop of Canterbury, who was appointed by the crown in England, needed to receive a pallium from the Pope which represented his ecclesiastical authority. The pallium was thin scarf-like vestment and the last Archbishop of Canterbury to receive one was Thomas Cranmer. Just a few years after receiving his pallium, Cranmer led the Church of England out of papal jurisdiction and by the end of his episcopacy he had done away with sacerdotal vestments entirely. One element of the English Reformation was that the appointment of an Archbishop of Canterbury no longer required the validation or support of an external ecclesiastical authority.
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