The Anglican dioceses of Mombasa are 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 t ...

presence in and around

Mombasa Mombasa ( ; ) is a coastal city in southeastern Kenya along the Indian Ocean. It was the first capital of the British East Africa, before Nairobi was elevated to capital city status. It now serves as the capital of Mombasa County. The town ...

and south-east

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; they are part of the

Anglican Church of Kenya The Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) is a province of the Anglican Communion, and it is composed by 41 dioceses. The current Primate and Archbishop of Kenya is Jackson Ole Sapit. The Anglican Church of Kenya claims 5 million total members. Accordi ...

. The remaining dioceses of the Church are in the areas of Maseno, of Mount Kenya, and of Nakuru.

Diocese of Mombasa

is the oldest Kenyan diocese; it was erected from the

Diocese of Eastern Equatorial Africa The Anglican dioceses of Buganda are the Anglican presence in the Central Region, Uganda (equivalent to the old Buganda kingdom); they are part of the Church of Uganda. The remaining dioceses of the Church are in the areas of Eastern Uganda, of N ...

(which at that point covered all

Uganda }), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The ...

, Kenya and

Tanganyika Tanganyika may refer to: Places * Tanganyika Territory (1916–1961), a former British territory which preceded the sovereign state * Tanganyika (1961–1964), a sovereign state, comprising the mainland part of present-day Tanzania * Tanzania Main ...

)Anglican Church of Kenya — History
(Accessed 1 November 2017) in 1898. Following the addition of the territory around

Kavirondo Kavirondo is the former name of the region surrounding Kavirondo Gulf (now Winam Gulf) as well as of two native peoples living there under the regime of British East Africa (The "Nilotic Kavirondo" and the "Bantu Kavirondo"). Broadly, this was defi ...

(approximately the territory of the 1961 Maseno diocese) in 1921 and the splitting of its area of northern Tanganyika in 1972, the Diocese of Mombasa comprised (only) all Kenya.Anglican Church of Kenya — Diocese of Mombasa
(Accessed 1 November 2017)

Bishops of Mombasa

*1899–1916: William Peel (died in office) *1918–1936: Richard Heywood (later assistant bishop of

Coventry Coventry ( or ) is a city in the West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its city status until the Middle Ages. The city is governed b ...

1937–1952) *1936–1953:

Reginald Crabbe The Rt Rev Reginald Percy Crabbe was an Anglican bishop in the mid-20th century. He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 15 July 1883, educated at Trent College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and ordained in 1907. After a curacy at ...

*1953–1964:

Leonard Beecher Leonard James Beecher (21 May 190616 December 1987) was an English-born Anglican archbishop. He was the first archbishop of the Province of East Africa, comprising Kenya and Tanzania, from 1960 to 1970. Education and training He was educated at ...

(previously assistant bishop 1950–1953; also Archbishop of East Africa 1960–70; later Bishop of Nairobi 1964–1970) **1955–1961:

Festo Olang' Festo Habakkuk Olang’,was born in Ebusakami Esabalu village about 1914 In 1925 he began attending Kisumu Primary School, then called Komulo School. In 1927, he sat for the Common Entrance Examination at Maseno School and was admitted in 1928. He s ...

, assistant bishop; suffragan for Western Kenya (

Nyanza Province Nyanza Province (; sw, Mkoa wa Nyanza) was one of Kenya's eight administrative provinces before the formation of the 47 counties under the 2010 constitution. Six counties were organised in the area of the former province. The region is locate ...

) from 1957; became first

Bishop of Maseno The Anglican dioceses of Maseno are the Anglican presence in and around Maseno, the Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria, and the western slopes of Mount Elgon, south-west Kenya; they are part of the Anglican Church of Kenya. The remaining dioceses of th ...

Musalia, Martha Wangari. ''Archbishop Manasses Kuria: A Biography: Strong in the Storms'
p. 51
(Accessed 2 November 2017) **1955–1961:

Obadiah Kariuki Obadiah Kariuki (1902–1978) was an Anglican bishop in Kenya during the last third of the twentieth century. enya Gazette 10 August 2007 Kariuki was born near Kabete where he attended the CMS school. He was baptized in 1922. He trained as a te ...

, assistant bishop; suffragan for Central and Eastern Kenya ( Central Province) from 1957; became first

Bishop of Fort Hall The Anglican dioceses of Mount Kenya are the Anglican presence in east-central, north and north-east Kenya; they are part of the Anglican Church of Kenya. The remaining dioceses of the Church area in the areas of Mombasa, of Maseno, and of Nakur ...

**1960–1961:

Neville Langford-Smith Neville Langford-Smith (born Sydney 1910, died Castle Hill 1993) was an Anglican bishop in Kenya. Langford-Smith was educated at Trinity Grammar School and the University of Sydney. In 1932 he went as a volunteer to Central Tanganyika. In 1937 ...

, assistant bishop, suffragan (consecrated

St Bartholomew's Day Bartholomew (Aramaic: ; grc, Βαρθολομαῖος, translit=Bartholomaîos; la, Bartholomaeus; arm, Բարթողիմէոս; cop, ⲃⲁⲣⲑⲟⲗⲟⲙⲉⲟⲥ; he, בר-תולמי, translit=bar-Tôlmay; ar, بَرثُولَماو� ...

(24 August) 1960,

All Saints' Cathedral, Nairobi All Saints' Cathedral, Nairobi is a Cathedral of the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK). Background The CMS missionary Johann Ludwig Krapf arrived in 1844 and established a mission station at Rabai. Bishop William Peel conducted the first Anglican ...

, by Beecher); became first

Bishop of Nakuru The Anglican dioceses of Nakuru are the Anglican presence in and around Nakuru, west-central, north-east and south-central Kenya; they are part of the Anglican Church of Kenya. The remaining dioceses of the Church area in the areas of Mombasa, of ...

(

Rift Valley Province Rift Valley Province ( sw, Mkoa wa Bonde la Ufa) of Kenya, bordering Uganda, was one of Kenya's eight provinces, before the Kenyan general election, 2013. Rift Valley Province was the largest and one of the most economically important provinces i ...

) *1964–1981: Peter Mwang'ombe (resigned) Gitari, David. ''Troubled but not Destroyed: Autobiography'
p. 59
(Accessed 2 November 2017) *1981–?: Crispus Nzano, previously assistant bishop *1994–2015: Julius Kalu **?–2015: Lawrence Dena, assistant Bishop (former Provincial Secretary, 2006–2009) *2018–Present
Alphonse Baya Mwaro

Diocese of Nairobi

Founded from Mombasa diocese in 1964, the

Nairobi Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper ...

diocese was the See of the

Archbishop of Kenya The Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) is a province of the Anglican Communion, and it is composed by 41 dioceses. The current Primate and Archbishop of Kenya is Jackson Ole Sapit. The Anglican Church of Kenya claims 5 million total members. Accordi ...

from the independence of the Kenyan church in 1970 until the independent All Saints' Cathedral diocese took that role in 2002. The Diocese has been split three times: to erect Machakos diocese in 1985, the Diocese of Kajiado in 1993 and All Saints' Cathedral diocese in 2002.Anglican Church of Kenya — Diocese of Nairobi
(Accessed 5 November 2017) Until 2002, Nairobi diocese's cathedral was

; since that cathedral became the seat of the new All Saints' Cathedral diocese, St Stephen's Cathedral, Nairobi, has served as the new cathedral.

Bishops of Nairobi, Archbishops of Kenya

*1970–1980:

*1980–1994:

Manasses Kuria Manasses Kuria (29 July 1929, in Nairobi – 19 September 2005, in Nairobi) was a Kenyan Anglican archbishop. He was the second African archbishop and bishop of Nairobi in the Anglican Church of Kenya. Early life Kuria was brought up by his par ...

*1997–2002:

David Gitari David Mukuba Gitari (16 September 1937 – 30 September 2013) was a Kenyan Anglican archbishop. He was the third primate and archbishop of the Anglican Church of Kenya, from 1997 to 2002, and at the same time, Bishop of the Diocese of Nairobi. ...

Bishops of Nairobi

*1964–1970:

, Archbishop of East Africa *2002–2010: Peter Njoka *2010–present: Joel Waweru

Diocese of Machakos

The Diocese of

Machakos Machakos, also called Masaku is a town in Kenya, southeast of Nairobi. It is the capital of the Machakos County, Kenya. Its population is rapidly growing and was 150,041 as of 2009 and Machakos County had a population of 1,421,932 as of 201 ...

was erected from Nairobi diocese in 1985 and was itself split to create Kitui diocese in 1995, Garissa in 2007 and Makueni in 2013. Since 1992, the cathedral has been All Souls' Cathedral, Machakos.

Bishops of Machakos

*1985–1995:

Benjamin Nzimbi Benjamin Paul Mwanzia Nzimbi (born 1945 in Kitui District) is a Kenyan Anglican archbishop. He was the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church of Kenya and Bishop of the Diocese of All Saints Cathedral, from 2002 to 2009. He is married to Al ...

(afterwards first Bishop of Kitui, then Primate—Archbishop) *1995–2013: Joseph Kanuku *2013–present: Joseph Mutungi

Diocese of Taita–Taveta

On 1 July 1993, the Diocese of Taita–Taveta — named for Taita–Taveta County — was carved from the then very large Mombasa diocese. The diocese has not been split; it has a

pro-cathedral A pro-cathedral or procathedral is a parish church that temporarily serves as the cathedral or co-cathedral of a diocese, or a church that has the same function in a Catholic missionary jurisdiction (such as an apostolic prefecture or apostoli ...

Voi Voi is the largest town in Taita-Taveta County in southern Kenya, in the former Coast Province. It lies at the western edge of the Taru Desert, south and west of the Tsavo East National Park. The Sagala Hills are to the south. Economy Voi is a ...

, the county's largest town (though not its capital).

Bishops of Taita–Taveta

*1993–2016: Samson Mwaluda *2016–present: Liverson Mng'onda (previously

coadjutor bishop 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- ...

)

Diocese of Kajiado

Formed from Nairobi diocese in 1993, the Diocese of Kajiado now has a pro-cathedral at Emmanuel Pro-Cathedral, Kajiado.

Bishops of Kajiado

*1997–2012: Jeremiah Taama *2012–present: Gadiel Lenini

Diocese of Kitui

The Diocese of Kitui was erected from Machakos diocese on 1 April 1995 and covers the former Kitui and

Mwingi District Mwingi District was a former district of Kenya, located in the now defunct Eastern Province. The district had a population of 303.828 (1999 census). Its capital was Mwingi town. Local people are mostly of the Akamba tribe. North of Mwingi town, ...

s — that is, the present

Kitui County Kitui County is a county in the former Eastern Province of Kenya. Its capital and largest town is Kitui, although Mwingi is also another major urban centre. The county has a population of 1,136,187 (2019 census). and an area of 30,430 km2. ...

Bishops of Kitui

*1995–2002:

(previously first Bishop of Machakos, afterwards Primate—Archbishop) *2002–present: Josephat Mule

All Saints' Cathedral Diocese

From 1964 until 2002, the

had their See at

as ''ex officio'' Bishop of Nairobi (diocesan bishop of the above Diocese of Nairobi). From 2000, the ACK Provincial Synod and Nairobi diocese entered formal discussions to create a new arrangement for the archbishop's See; a very small new diocese was carved from Nairobi diocese, around All Saints' Cathedral itself. The remaining Nairobi diocese now elects her own bishop, who is not the archbishop; while the new See — very unusually, not named for a place or area but for its own cathedral — of All Saints' Cathedral is held ''ex officio'' by the Primate and Archbishop of All Kenya. The diocese has two archdeaconries and twelve parishes. As the archbishop's diocese, the bishops in charge of Missionary Areas (i.e. proto-dioceses) are consecrated suffragans in this diocese (regardless of the diocese which their territory belongs to) until their own diocesan See's erection.

Bishops of All Saints' Cathedral, Primates and Archbishops of All Kenya

*2002–2009:

**2008–2011: Rob Martin, suffragan for Marsabit Mission Area (became diocesan Bishop of Marsabit) *2009–2016:

Eliud Wabukala Eliud Wamukekhe Wabukala (born in Bungoma West District, 1951) is a Kenyan Anglican Archbishop notable as a leader in the Anglican realignment. He is Bishop of the Diocese of All Saints Cathedral and the fifth Primate of the Anglican Church of K ...

*2016–present: Ole Sapit ** David Mutisya, missionary Bishop of Garissa ** Bill Atwood, suffragan (became diocesan bishop of the International Diocese of the

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) **

Cleti Ogeto Cleti Ogeto is the Anglican Missionary Bishop of Lodwar"Growth and Decline in the Anglican Communion: 1980 to the Present" Goodhew, D (ed) p117: Abingdon; Taylor & Francis; 2016 in Kenya ) , national_anthem = " Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu" ...

, missionary Bishop of Lodwar

Diocese of Garissa

Garissa diocese was created from territory of Machakos diocese in 2007. Also called a missionary area, Mutisya is or was a suffragan of the archbishop, in All Saints' Cathedral diocese. The first and so far only Bishop of Garissa, since 2007, is David Mutisya.

Military Episcopate

In November 2009, the Anglican Chaplaincy to the

Kenyan Armed Forces The Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) ( sw, Majeshi ya Ulinzi ya Kenya, stylized as "KENYA ARMED FORCES" capitalized on its coat of arms) are the armed forces of the Republic of Kenya. They are made up of the Kenya Army, Kenya Navy, and Kenya Air Fo ...

was raised into a diocese (ordinariate). It is headquartered at the Garrison Church of St Paul at

Kahawa Kahawa is a suburb settlement spanning the Kiambu County and Nairobi County borders along Thika Road. It is administratively divided into four wards across the two counties: Kahawa and Kahawa West wards in Nairobi county and Kahawa Wendani and Kah ...

Barracks outside Nairobi.Conger, George — New military diocese for Kenya
(Accessed 2 January 2018)

Bishops for the Armed Forces

From 2007, Simiyu was the first and only Bishop suffragan to the Armed Forces (presumably suffragan to the Primate possibly to the Bishop of Nairobi). *2009–present: Peter Simiyu

Diocese of Makueni

The Diocese of Makueni was erected from Machakos diocese in 2013, and Joseph Kanuku, Bishop of Machakos, moved to the new See, becoming first Bishop of Makueni.

Bishops of Makueni

*2013–2016: Joseph Kanuku (previously Bishop of Machakos) *2016–present: Francis Matui

Diocese of Malindi

Malindi diocese was erected from the Diocese of Mombasa in 2015. The first bishop, since 2015, is Lawrence Dena, previously assistant bishop of Mombasa, and former Provincial Secretary. The diocesan pro-cathedral is St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Malindi.ACK St Mary's Pro-Cathedral, Malindi — History of the Church
(Accessed 6 November 2017)

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