The Bishop of Zanzibar is the
Diocesan of an island diocese in the
Anglican Church of Tanzania. Its current bishop is Michael Hafidh. The bishop's seat is
Christ Church, Zanzibar
Christ Church is an Anglican cathedral in Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania. It belongs to the Anglican Church of Tanzania. It is a landmark historical church, as well as one of the most prominent examples of early Christian architecture in East Afr ...
, the
Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...
cathedral in
Stone Town
Stonetown of Zanzibar ( ar, مدينة زنجبار الحجرية), also known as Mji Mkongwe ( Swahili for "old town"), is the old part of Zanzibar City, the main city of Zanzibar, in Tanzania. The newer portion of the city is known as Ng'ambo ...
,
Zanzibar,
Tanzania.
Bishops
:Bishops of Zanzibar
*18927 May 1894 (d.):
Charles Smythies
Charles Alan Smythies (6 August 18447 May 1894) was a British colonial bishop in the 19th century.
Life
Smythies was born in Colchester, the son of the Rev. Charles Norfolk Smythies, vicar of St-Mary-at-the-Walls there, and his wife Isabella T ...
(previously
Bishop in Central Africa
A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution.
In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...
until that See was split)
*18951901 (res.):
William Richardson
*19011908 (res.):
John Hine
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(translated from
Likoma and to
Northern Rhodesia
*18 October 19082 November 1924 (d.):
Frank Weston
*19251943 (res.):
Thomas Birley Thomas Howard Birley (11 December 1865 – 1949) was Anglican Bishop of Zanzibar from 1925 until 1943.
He was educated at Radley and Christ Church, Oxford and ordained in 1889 after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon. He was Curate of ...
*1943''1963'':
Bill Baker (diocese renamed in 1963 and 1965)
Though the diocese was renamed "Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam" in 1963, the creation of separate dioceses for Dar es Salaam and for Tanga was already planned. When the Diocese of Dar es Salaam was erected in 1965, this remaining diocese was renamed "Zanzibar and Tanga".
:Bishops of Zanzibar and Tanga
*19631968 (res.): Bill Baker (Bishop of Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, 1963–1965; Bishop of Zanzibar and Tanga thereafter; became
Assistant Bishop of Liverpool)
*1968–1980: Yohana Jumaa (consecrated 25 April 1968, by Neil Russell, assistant bishop, at Korogwe)
*19802001 (ret.):
John Ramadhani
:Bishops of Zanzibar
*20029 February 2006 (d.): Douglas Toto (Douglas Mathew Toto; consecrated 24 August 2002;
[Anglican Diocese of Zanzibar — Heritage](_blank)
(Accessed 14 November 2021) died in post)
*20062012: vacancy in See
**20062010: Matthew Mhagama, Vicar-General
**20102012: Michael Hafidh, Vicar-General
*2012present: Michael Hafidh (consecrated 15 April 2012, by
Valentino Mokiwa
Valentino Leonard Mokiwa (born 1954) is a former Tanzanian Anglican Archbishop. He was elected as the Primate and Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Tanzania in 2008 and occupied the position until 2013. Since being elected in April 2002, Mokiw ...
,
Archbishop of Tanzania)
Assistant bishops
On 24 March 1963, three men were consecrated bishops, to serve the diocese in anticipation of a planned three-way split:
*1963–1965:
John Sepeku John Thomas Mhina Sepeku (1908November 1983) was the inaugural archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church of Tanzania, serving from 5 July 1970 until his resignation (in ill-health) effective 1 September 1978.
Sepeku was educated at Hegono Theol ...
, assistant bishop in Dar-es-Salaam,
became first bishop of the
Diocese of Dar es Salaam on 10 July 1965.
*1963–?: Yohana Lukindo, assistant bishop for the
Tanga Region,
was born 1921, ordained in 1953 and served as Archdeacon of Korogwe, 1961–63.
[Information sheet: installation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 27 June 1961]
p. 10
*19631968 (ret.): Robert Neil Russell (called Neil; died 9 May 1984, Tanzania, aged 78) went to
Southern Rhodesia as a missionary in 1933 and later to
Tanga Tanga may refer to:
Places Burkina Faso
* , a town in eastern Burkina Faso
* Tanga, Sidéradougou, a village in western Burkina Faso
* Tanga-Pela, a village in northern-central Burkina Faso
Other places
* Tanga, Tanzania, a city and port on th ...
.
He was consecrated a bishop in March 1963, to serve as an assistant bishop based on Zanzibar Island (
Unguja).
He retired to his native Scotland in 1968 and joined the
Community of the Transfiguration (Scotland), taking charge of
Rosslyn Chapel while also serving as an
Assistant Bishop of Edinburgh. He returned to
Tanzania in 1982 and later died there.
References
Religion in Zanzibar
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