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About the Moderator


The Rev Dr Graham Redding is principal of the Knox Centre for Ministry and Leadership, which is the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Dunedin-based training centre for ministers and lay leaders. Graham took up this role in 2007. Before that, he served as a parish minister at St John’s in the City in Wellington for six years and Somervell Memorial Presbyterian Church in Auckland for nine years.

During this time he also served the Church in a variety of capacities, including as Co-convenor of the Equipping the Leadership Policy Group and Convenor of the Doctrine Core Group. He has a Doctorate through London University. His research interests have lain mainly in the fields of theology, worship, ethics and the arts. His book, Prayer and the Priesthood of Christ in the Reformed Tradition, was published in 2003. He is married to Jenni and has three teenage children.

Grahams theme for GA08 is reformed and reforming.

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