Apimeleki Qiliho

Apimeleki Nadoki Qiliho is an indigenous Fijian from the Province of Nadroga-Navosa in the Fiji Islands. He is the Anglican "Bishop in Vanua Levu and Taveuni" in the Diocese of Polynesia or Tikanga Pasefika under the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. He made church history by becoming the first indigenous Fijian Bishop in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. He is one of three Anglican Church or suffragan bishops who serve under the Archbishop of Polynesia, Jabez Bryce. This diocese covers Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands. Apimeleki Qiliho serves as area bishop over the Vanua Levu and Taveuni Episcopal Area. The other two Bishops in the Diocese of Polynesia are Gabriel Sharma, Bishop of Viti Levu West and Winston Halapua, the diocesan bishop who serves Polynesians in New Zealand.

Qiliho comes from the village of Rukurukulevu in the district of Cuvu in Nadroga, located in Fiji's Western Division. He then spent some time living in Lautoka, the capital of the Western Division, at which time he changed denomination from being Methodist to an Anglican. He then decided to become a priest and eventually was made a Bishop after serving for some time as the Vicar general at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Suva. Apimeleki Qiliho lives in Labasa on Vanua Levu and is currently married to Taomi Tapu Qiliho. He was previously married to Litiana Rika who died in 1997. He has four children and eight grandchildren.

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