New chaplain for Victoria

The Reverend Peter Jennings has been appointed National Council of Churches Chaplain to Victoria University of Wellington.

Mr. Jennings is an Anglican who has been Vicar at Bluff and Stewart Island for the past four years.

He replaces the Rev John Murray, who will become minister of Knox Presbyterian Church, Christchurch.

Mr. Jennings studied maths at Cambridge for three years and theology at Chichester Theological College for two years

He is married with four children.

Before coming to New Zealand Mr. Jennings worked as a curate in Harlow, one of the new towns around London, where an attempt was being made to create a new community with a population of 160,000.

Mr. Jennings says that besides being at the disposal of the religious societies, he believes he will spend a lot of his time in the counselling room.

This was the aspect of parish work that appealed to him most.

He has undergone post-ordination training in psychology.

Though Mr. Jennings is a Geering supporter, he hopes this will not prevent more conservative students from talking to him.