George Augustus Selwyn, first and only Anglican bishop of New Zealand (1841–69), then bishop of Lichfield (1868–78), is a towering figure in the history of Anglicanism in New Zealand and, as an early advocate of worldwide Anglican unity, one of the creators of the modern Anglican Communion. He was the first colonial bishop to be appointed to an English see and the first English diocesan bishop to visit North America. This book is based upon papers presented at symposiums in Cambridge and Auckland in 2009 to mark the two-hundredth anniversary of the births of both George and Sarah Selwyn. Its eleven essays, drawing upon a substantial body of recent scholarship and exploring many areas for the first time, provide a valuable reassessment of Selwyn and of his wider significance. Warren Limbrick looks at the ‘church principles’ that underpinned Selwyn's New Zealand episcopate and the steps that he took to create a self-governing Church, achieved in 1857. Allan Davidson explores the three dimensions of Selwyn's New Zealand episcopate: bishop of a diocese that embraced colonies newly-founded by immigrants from Britain, bishop of the Maori Church that had been planted by CMS missionaries since 1814, and founder of a mission to Melanesia in the south-west Pacific. These three roles were often in tension and Selwyn's initially amicable relations with the CMS deteriorated. Janet Crawford provides a sympathetic portrait of Sarah Selwyn who lived in the shadow of her energetic and forceful husband but was involved in all his activities and outlived him by almost thirty years. The essay by John Stenhouse explores Selwyn's defence of Maori rights and the hostile reaction that it provoked among land-hungry settlers. He aims a deserved shot at recent historians of New Zealand for their dismissive treatment of Selwyn and the ‘church party’. Grant Phillipson illuminates the complex area of Selwyn's role in current New Zealand debates on Maori-Crown relations and Maori grievances over land. The art historian Jonathan Mane-Wheoki examines the distinctive imprint of Selwyn, as a patron of the Cambridge Camden Society, on the architecture of the first colonial churches. Bruce Kaye analyses Selwyn's significant contribution to the 1850 conference of the Australasian bishops, while Rowan Strong investigates Selwyn's place in mid nineteenth-century imperial networks. His personal and formal connections extended, through W. E. Gladstone, to the heart of the British government. Bishop Terry Brown discusses Selwyn's two visits to North America, in 1871 and 1874, on which he had some success as an ecclesiastical diplomat and bridge-builder. Ken Booth assesses Selwyn's record as bishop of Lichfield in the 1870s and brings out the continuities in his thinking and policies. The librarian Judith Bright describes Selwyn's huge correspondence. During the last twenty years she has located and created an inventory of 2,500 surviving letters, held in fifteen repositories in New Zealand and England. It is no surprise to learn that Selwyn was never off duty. Whether writing to his wife, family, friends, missionary societies or politicians, he invariably signed with his episcopal signature, ‘GANZealand’.