Sir David John Moxon KNZM, KStJ, MMCM, (born 6 September 1951) is a New Zealand Anglican bishop. He went to school in Papaioea, Palmerston North, served as a VSA school leaver youth worker in Fiji in 1970, and gained degrees in Education and Theology from Massey, Canterbury and Oxford universities respectively. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from Waikato and Massey universities, and is an honorary fellow of St Peter’s College Oxford and St Margaret’s College Otago. Prior to being a bishop in 1993, he was a priest in Havelock North and Tauranga, and served as the director of Theological education by Extension for Aotearoa New Zealand and Polynesia.
David serves on various secondary and tertiary Anglican educational boards and a Māori work skills riparian planting trust in Piako as well as a national anti-slavery ecumenical network. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Representative to the Holy See and Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome from 2013-2017. He was previously the Bishop of Waikato in the Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki, from 1993-2013, the Archbishop of the New Zealand Dioceses 2016 -2013, and one of the three primates of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia 2008-2013. In the 2014 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the Anglican Church. He is a Knight of Justice of the Most Venerable order of St John of Jerusalem ( Hato Hone St John Ambulance) in Aotearoa New Zealand. David is married to Tureiti a Māori health provider and advocate, and they have four grown children and four mokopuna.
