Images of Old Hawaiʻi

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Church of England Mission

“Polynesian Church (1861) – The committee for promoting the establishment of a Church in Honolulu, in communion with the Churches of England and America having taken into consideration the King of Hawai‘i’s desire to receive a mission from the Church of England headed by a Bishop, are of opinion that measures should be taken for fulfilling the desire thus put, we trust, by God into the heart of His Majesty.” And so was formed the mission of the Church of England (Anglican) to the Islands.

“The Mission party, consisting of the Bishop of Honolulu and family (Right Reverend Thomas Nettleship Staley,) the Rev. G. Mason, M.A., and the Rev. E. Ibbotson, embarked at Southampton for the Isthmus of Panama, on the 17th of August, 1862.” A wooden temporary church was erected, to be used until the completion of the St Andrews cathedral. Initially the church was called the Hawaiian Reformed Catholic Church but the name would change in 1870 to the Anglican Church in Hawai‘i. In 1902 it came under the Episcopal Church of the US.

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Waiting Isles

“The isles shall wait for His law.” (Isaiah 42:4) King Kamehameha IV and Queen Emma were responsible for bringing the Anglican Church to Hawai‘i. This invitation culminated in the consecration of Thomas Nettleship Staley at Lambeth Palace on December 15, 1861 as Bishop of the Missionary Diocese of Honolulu. The first services of the church were held in Honolulu on October 12, 1862, upon their arrival.

Initially the church was called the Hawaiian Reformed Catholic Church but the name would change in 1870 to the Anglican Church in Hawai‘i. In 1902 it came under the Episcopal Church of the US. Please follow the link to the full post for a summary of a Sermon preached at the farewell service of the Mission to the Sandwich Islands in Westminster Abby, by Staley, July 23, 1862. (The image shows St Andrew’s Pro Cathedral, called the English Church (built in 1866,) which was the temporary cathedral until St Andrews Cathedral was finished (1886.))

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Edwin Lani Hanchett

The eldest child of six (five boys and one girl,) Edwin Lani Hanchett was born at Ho‘olehua, Molokai, on November 2, 1919 to Dr Alsoberry Kaumualiʻi Hanchett and Mary Hazel (McGuire) Hanchett. Hanchett was ordained the first priest of the Episcopal Church of Hawaiian ancestry by Bishop Kennedy on September 19, 1953 (Ember Saturday).

On September 26, 1967, Hanchett, rector of St. Peter’s, Honolulu, had been elected Hawaii’s first suffragan Bishop by the House of Bishops meeting in Seattle. Then, on January 18, 1970, he became the first Bishop of Hawaiian ancestry of the Episcopal Church at Saint Andrew’s Cathedral.

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St. Andrew’s Priory

At the invitation of King Kamehameha IV, the Anglican Church mission came to Hawaiʻi in 1862; the invitation was extended to both the Church of England and the Episcopal Church in the Unites States.  The Church of England gave a favorable response. At the time, the American Protestants, through the Congregational Church, and Roman Catholic […]