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' Every nation needs in its capital city a great church to express its belief in the things of the spirit ', said Archbishop Reginald Owen, the Bishop of Wellington and sixth Archbishop of New Zealand.

He was speaking at a rain-soaked ceremony in 1958 to a congregation sheltering under umbrellas among the scaffolding of the Wellington Cathedral, hardly begun and still lacking, for the most part, a roof.