Kuan Kim Seng is the first Bishop of the Horn of Africa in the
Province of Alexandria, part of the worldwide
Anglican Communion
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, to which office he was consecrated on the creation of the Diocese in 2020. Before becoming the diocesan bishop, Kuan Kim Seng served as a commissary bishop the Horn of Africa, in what was the Diocese of Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa.
[Former Singapore bishop appointed Commissary Bishop of The Horn of Africa]
: Anglican News; November 27, 2018
Bishop Kuan is Singaporean and served most of his career in
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...
. Previously he was one of two assistant bishops of the
Anglican Diocese of Singapore in the
Church of the Province of Southeast Asia
The Church of the Province of South East Asia is an autonomous member of the Anglican Communion, created in 1996 with the four dioceses of Kuching, Sabah, Singapore and West Malaysia.
There are approximately 98,000 Anglicans within the prov ...
and had served as
Dean of Singapore.
[ and as the vicar of the Chapel of the Resurrection in Singapore.]
Publications
*''Our duty and our joy'', Armour Publishing Pte Ltd, 2007,
References
External links
Audio Sermons By Rt Revd Kuan Kim Seng
hosted by St Andrew's Cathedral
Anglican bishops of the Horn of Africa
Deans of Singapore
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Singaporean Anglicans
21st-century Anglican bishops in Africa
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