Victor teaches Te Reo MÄori at Levels 5 and 6 to support the inclusion of MÄori language and culture in ordination training programmes. Victor has a teaching background in secondary schools and at the University of Auckland in the English and Maori Studies Departments. He was raised in Te Reo Maori in Hokianga and is principally of Ngapuhi and Te Rarawa descent. He is currently researching ways in which people think about syncretism in Aotearoa and the colonial background to some of this thinking.
Syncretism