On 4 May 2019, it was announced that Wai Quayle, Archdeacon of Wairarapa (in Te Pīhopatanga), was to become the next Pīhopa; she took her See with her consecration as a bishop on 12 September at Masterton by Don Tamihere, Archbishop and Primate of New Zealand, Te Pīhopa o Aotearoa and Te Pīhopa o Te Tairāwhiti (with his fellow-Primates Philip Richardson and Fereimi Cama).
On May 4, 2019, Wai Quayle was chosen as the next Pīhopa of New Zealand. She took her position on September 12th at Masterton during a ceremony led by Archbishop Don Tamihere, with fellow Primates Philip Richardson and Fereimi Cama present.