The Anglican Bishop of Santiago is a

bishop 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 c ...

in the Anglican communion, the head of the Anglican Diocese of Santiago within the

Anglican Church of Chile The Anglican Church of Chile ( es, Iglesia Anglicana de Chile) is the ecclesiastical province of the Anglican Communion that covers four dioceses in Chile. Formed in 2018, the province is the 40th and the newest in the Anglican Communion. The pro ...

. Until 2018, the bishop and diocese were "of Chile", in the

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. The diocese was founded in 1963 from the Diocese of the Falkland Islands. The diocesan seat is the Santiago Community Church in Santiago. The incumbent diocesan bishop is

Tito Zavala Héctor "Tito" Zavala Muñoz (born 16 October 1954) is a Chilean Anglican bishop. He was the first native Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Chile and later the first Latin American Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of Ame ...

(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

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and Primate/Presiding Bishop of the province.

Bishops

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, Bishop of Southwark, at

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. He was consecrated a bishop by

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, Archbishop of Canterbury, at

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on 18 October 1963. He later served as an

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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 George Edward David Pytches (born 9 January 1931) is a bishop of the Anglican Communion and the former Bishop of Chile, Bolivia and Peru. Pytches was also vicar of St Andrew's, in Chorleywood England. He is the author of many books, including ...

, Bishop of Chile, Bolivia, and Peru * 1977–2000:

Colin Bazley Colin Frederick Bazley (born 27 June 1935) is a retired bishop in the Church of England. He was a bishop in Chile from 1969 until his retirement in 2000. Early life, education and family The son of Reginald Samuel Bazley and Isabella Davies, Bazl ...

, 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:

, bishop coadjutor (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:

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, 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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