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Ian James Nield was born in Oldham, England in 1961. He was Christened in October 1961 at Saint Margaret's Church, Hollinwood and was brought up as a High Church Anglican. With his parents he moved to New Zealand in 1970.
By 1998 it had become painfully obvious that Ian could no longer call the Anglican Church his ecclessial home. After a period of instruction the whole family was received into the Orthodox Church on Orthodox Palm Sunday 1999.
Dr Nield was asked by His Eminence Paul on several occasions by Met Abp Paul Saliba (Antiochian) to take up ordained ministry. In late 2002, Ian recognised this calling and accepted His Eminence's request that he be the priest to the mission in Wellington. Consequently he was ordained to the Diaconate and the Priesthood in January 2003, and serves as head of mission in Wellington. Fr Ian serves Eastern rite in Wellington and Western rite in Lower Hutt on alternating weeks.
Fr Ian has served on the Archdiocesan board of trustees since September 2000 and assists the Dean, Fr Jack in the administration of the New Zealand Deanery.
Fr Ian has fulltime secular employment as a senior official at the