The Venerable Carole Hughes is a member of the Anglican Diocese of Auckland Episcopal Team (since August 2011) as full-time Archdeacon of Auckland. She has been Vicar-General since 2019. Prior to which she was Co-Vicar and then Vicar of St John’s, Campbells Bay, on the North Shore of Auckland. She was ordained in 1997 in the Diocese of Waikato and Taranaki, where she offered ministry at the Taranaki Cathedral and St Chads West New Plymouth. Carole is passionate about theological education and contextual understandings of Scripture, Anglican liturgy, and liberation theology. Carole was appointed to the Board by the ordained ministers of the General Synod/te Hīnota Whānui in 2023.