Api Qiliho

Apimeleki Nadoki Qiliho is an indigenous Fijian from the Province of Nadroga-Navosa in the Fiji Islands and a retired Anglican bishop.

Consecrated a bishop on 10 April 2005, he became "

Bishop of Polynesia (then Jabez Bryce) — the diocese covers Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands. After his comrade Gabriel Sharma resigned as Bishop in Viti Levu West, Qiliho also took that role from 2014 onwards; in 2017, he became (instead) Assistant Bishop of the diocese,^[3] until his retirement in August 2018.^[4]

Background

Qiliho comes from the village of Rukurukulevu in the district of Cuvu in Nadroga,^[2] located in Fiji's Western Division. He then spent some time living in Lautoka, the capital of the Western Division, at which time he changed denomination from being Methodist to an Anglican. He then decided to become a priest and eventually was made a Bishop after serving for some time as the Vicar general at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Suva. Apimeleki Qiliho lives in Labasa on Vanua Levu and is currently married to Taomi Tapu Qiliho. He was previously married to Litiana Rika who died in 1997. He has four children and eight grandchildren.

Career

Qiliho began training to be an Anglican priest in the early 1960s and during the course of his training stayed in Suva and

organisations

in Fiji and the region.

References

^ Directory: Diocese of Polynesia
^ ^a ^b "First indigenous Fijian bishop for Anglican Church". Scoop. 2005-07-04. Retrieved 2010-07-30.
^ ACANZP Lectionary, 2019 (p. 145)
^ "Church Leader Set to Call It a Day".

[1] Directory: Diocese of Polynesia

[first-2] "First indigenous Fijian bishop for Anglican Church". Scoop. 2005-07-04. Retrieved 2010-07-30.

[lec19-3] ACANZP Lectionary, 2019 (p. 145)

[4] "Church Leader Set to Call It a Day".

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