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The Diocese of Port Elizabeth is a diocese in the
The British garrison of Port Elizabeth saw the arrival of 500 settlers in 1825, which included Francis McClelland, who was appointed the same year Colonial Chaplain. It was also laid the foundation stone of the Collegiate Church of St. Mary the Virgin, who only would be opened for worship in 1832. The Anglican Diocese of Port Elizabeth was created in 1970, being his first bishop, Philip Russell, until 1974. The diocese supported the anti-apartheid campaign under his tenure and the one of his successor, Bruce Evans. He was followed by Eric Pike, who would be in office from 1993 to 2001.
South African diocesan synod affirms GAFCON's Jerusalem Declaration, Anglican Ink, 9 November 2017
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Anglican Church of Southern Africa
The Anglican Church of Southern Africa, known until 2006 as the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, is the province of the Anglican Communion in the southern part of Africa. The church has twenty-five dioceses, of which twenty-one are loc ...
. The diocese was founded in 1970.
History
The British garrison of Port Elizabeth saw the arrival of 500 settlers in 1825, which included Francis McClelland, who was appointed the same year Colonial Chaplain. It was also laid the foundation stone of the Collegiate Church of St. Mary the Virgin, who only would be opened for worship in 1832. The Anglican Diocese of Port Elizabeth was created in 1970, being his first bishop, Philip Russell, until 1974. The diocese supported the anti-apartheid campaign under his tenure and the one of his successor, Bruce Evans. He was followed by Eric Pike, who would be in office from 1993 to 2001. Bethlehem Nopece
Nceba Bethlehem Nopece (born 1950) is a South African Anglican bishop. He was the bishop of Port Elizabeth in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa from 2001 to 2018. He is a theological conservative, the leading name of the Anglican realign ...
was elected as the first black bishop of the diocese in 2001, which he was until 29 July 2018.
List of bishops
* Philip Russell, 1970-1974 *Bruce Read Evans
Bruce Read Evans (1929 – 1993) was an Anglican bishop and author in the 20th century.
He was educated at King Edward School, Johannesburg and the University of the Witwatersrand and ordained in 1957. He held curacies at Holy Trinity, Redhill ...
, 1975-1993
* Eric Pike, 1993-2001
* Bethlehem Nopece
Nceba Bethlehem Nopece (born 1950) is a South African Anglican bishop. He was the bishop of Port Elizabeth in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa from 2001 to 2018. He is a theological conservative, the leading name of the Anglican realign ...
, 2001–2018
* Eddie Daniels
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Early life, family and education
Daniel ...
, 2019-
Coat of arms
The diocese registered a coat of arms at theBureau of Heraldry
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in 1977 : ''Argent, on a cross Gules, between in dexter chief an anchor, in sinister chief a cross moline, in dexter base a clay pot and in sinister base a triangle Sable voided of the field, a lamb couchant proper, the shield ensigned with a mitre proper.''
Anglican realignment
The diocese is theologically conservative. BishopBethlehem Nopece
Nceba Bethlehem Nopece (born 1950) is a South African Anglican bishop. He was the bishop of Port Elizabeth in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa from 2001 to 2018. He is a theological conservative, the leading name of the Anglican realign ...
attended the GAFCON
The Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (branded as GAFCON or Gafcon) is a global network of conservative Anglicanism, Anglican churches that formed in 2008 in response to an ongoing theological crisis in the worldwide Anglican Communion. ...
meetings in 2008, 2013 and 2018, and was the founder and is the current chairman of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans
The Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (branded as GAFCON or Gafcon) is a global network of conservative Anglican churches that formed in 2008 in response to an ongoing theological crisis in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Conservative ...
of South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
. The Synod of the diocese, held in November 2017, passed unanimously a motion that stated that any future nominee for local bishop must affirm the Jerusalem Declaration, issued at the Global Anglican Future Conference
The Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) is a series of conferences of conservative Anglican bishops and leaders, the first of which was held in Jerusalem from 22 to 29 June 2008 to address the growing controversy of the divisions in the An ...
, in Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
, in June 2008./ref>
References
External links
* {{Authority control 1970 establishments in South Africa Anglican Church of Southern Africa dioceses Anglican realignment dioceses