The Anglican Bishop of Santiago is a
bishop in the
Anglican
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communion, the head of the
Anglican Diocese of Santiago within the
Anglican Church of Chile. Until 2018, the bishop and diocese were "of Chile", in the
Anglican Church of South America
The Anglican Church of South America ( es, Iglesia Anglicana de Sudamérica) is the ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Communion that covers six dioceses in the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.
Formed in 198 ...
.
The diocese was founded in 1963 from the
Diocese of the Falkland Islands
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.
The diocesan seat is the Santiago Community Church in Santiago. The incumbent diocesan bishop is
Tito Zavala (born 1954), who was appointed in 2000.
In November 2018, the former Chile diocese become a province in its own right, subdivided into four new dioceses (Santiago, Valparaiso, Temuco, and Conception); Zavala remained in post, as his See and Diocese were renamed Santiago, and he was additionally elected inaugural
metropolitan bishop and Primate/Presiding Bishop of the province.
Bishops
Kenneth Walter Howell (4 February 190915 September 1995)
was a British-born Anglican bishop who served as the first bishop of the diocese. He was deaconed in Advent 1933 (17 December) and priested the next Advent (23 December 1934) — both times by
Richard Parsons Richard Parsons may refer to:
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* Richard Parsons (businessman) (born 1948), former chairman of Citigroup and the former Chairman and CEO of Time Warner
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,
Bishop of Southwark, at
Southwark Cathedral. He was consecrated a bishop by
Michael Ramsey,
Archbishop of Canterbury
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, at
Westminster Abbey on 18 October 1963. He later served as an
Assistant Bishop of London.
List of bishops
*1963–1971: Kenneth Howell, Bishop of Chile, Bolivia, and Peru
**1969–1977: Colin Bazley, assistant bishop for Cautin & Malleco (until 1975), then for the Santiago region
**1970–1972: David Pytches, assistant bishop for the Valparaíso region
* 1972–1976:
David Pytches, Bishop of Chile, Bolivia, and Peru
* 1977–2000:
Colin Bazley, Bishop of Chile, Bolivia, and Peru (until October 1977), of Chile and Bolivia (until October 1981), and of Chile alone
**12 June 19942018:
Abelino Apeleo, auxiliary bishop (became diocesan
Bishop of Temuco)
[ ]
**1998–2000:
Tito Zavala,
bishop coadjutor
A coadjutor bishop (or bishop coadjutor) is a bishop in the Catholic, Anglican, and (historically) Eastern Orthodox churches whose main role is to assist the diocesan bishop in the administration of the diocese. The coadjutor (literally, "co- ...
(succeeded as diocesan)
[ ]
* 1 January 2000present: Tito Zavala (Chile until 2018, Santiago since)
**19 March 2016present:
Nelson Ojeda
Nelson Ojeda is a Chilean Anglican bishop. He was consecrated as an auxiliary Bishop of Chile in 2016, and continued in that role after the diocese was formed into an autonomous ecclesiastical province
An ecclesiastical province is one of the ...
, auxiliary bishop
[ ]
**19 March 2016present:
Alfred Cooper, auxiliary bishop
**15 July 20182018:
Enrique Lago Enrique Lago Zugadi is a Chilean Anglican bishop. Since 2018 he has been Bishop of Concepción in the 40th Province of the Anglican Communion, namely the Anglican Church of Chile. Lago is the son-in-law of the last English-born Bishop of Chile, Co ...
, auxiliary bishop (became diocesan
Bishop of Concepción)
[ ]
**15 July 20182018:
Samuel Morrison, auxiliary bishop (became diocesan
Bishop of Valparaíso)
References
External links
Official website
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