The Anglican Diocese of Harare is a diocese of the

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. The Anglican Diocese of Mashonaland was formed in 1891 and its first

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was

George Knight-Bruce George Wyndham Hamilton Knight-Bruce was an Anglican bishop serving in Southern Africa, first as bishop of Bloemfontein and then as the inaugural bishop of Mashonaland, in the late nineteenth century. Knight-Bruce was born in 1853 and, having ...

. He was succeeded by

William Gaul William Thomas Gaul (1850–1927) was Rector of All Saints Church, Du Toit's Pan, Kimberley, afterwards of St Cyprian's Church, Kimberley, Rural Dean of Griqualand West, and Archdeacon in what was still the Diocese of Bloemfontein, before being ...

(1895–1907), formerly Rector of St Cyprian's Church in

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. Small in stature, Gaul styled himself “the smallest bishop with the largest Diocese in

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.” In 1915 the diocese became the Diocese of Southern Rhodesia until 1952 when it reverted to the Diocese of Mashonaland. The diocese was known as the Diocese of Harare and Mashonaland, until changing his name to Diocese of Harare. It has experienced great turbulence in recent times. The bishop's seat is at the

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List of bishops

1891–1895 *

1895–1907 * Edmund Powell 1908–1910 *

Frederic Beaven Frederic Hicks Beaven (11 April 1855 – 22 January 1941) was bishop of Mashonaland from 1911, through 1915 when his title was changed to bishop of Southern Rhodesia, until his retirement in 1925. History Born in Rodwell, Wiltshire, he was the e ...

1911–1925 * Edward Paget 1925–1957 *

Cecil Alderson Cecil William Alderson was a British-born Anglican Bishop of (successively) Damaraland, Bloemfontein, and Mashonaland. Early life He was born on 11 March 1900, educated at Merchant Taylors' and St John's College, Oxford, and ordained in 1 ...

1957–1968 * Paul Burrough 1968–c.1980 **

Patrick Murindagomo Patrick Murindagomo (died 1978) was an Anglican bishop in Zimbabwe then called Rhodesia. Murindagomo was born in Mhondoro. He was ordained deacon in 1953 and priest in 1954. He served in the Diocese of Mashonaland and became the Archdeacon of ...

was suffragan bishop in 1974 *

Peter Hatendi Ralph Peter Hatendi DD AKC (9 April 192731 August 2018) was a Zimbabwean bishop of Harare and Mashonaland from 1979 to his reluctant retirement in 1995. He later came out of retirement to serve as Interim Bishop of Manicaland from 2008 until 20 ...

c.1980–c.1995 *

Jonathan Siyachitema Jonathan Siyachitema was an Anglican bishop in Zimbabwe. Siyachitema was born in 1932 and educated at Sarum College. He was ordained in 1971 and began his career in Bulawayo. Later he was the Archdeacon of Matabeleland from 1974 to 1978; Dean ...

c.1995–c.2001 *

Nolbert Kunonga Nolbert Kunonga (born 31 December 1950, in Southern Rhodesia) is the former Zimbabwean Anglican Bishop of Harare and Mashonaland. Bio Kunonga was criticised within and outside the Anglican Communion for his ardent support of Robert Mugabe, the ...

c.2001–2008 *

Sebastian Bakare Sebastian Bakare (born 1940) is a Zimbabwean retired Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Harare and former Bishop of Manicaland. He was once in a power struggle over the leadership of the Diocese of Harare with Nolbert Kunonga, the former Bisho ...

2008–2009 *

Chad Gandiya Chad Gandiya was an Anglican bishop in Zimbabwe. Gandiya was educated at St John's College, Nottingham St John's College, Nottingham, founded as the London College of Divinity, was an Anglican and interdenominational theological college situat ...

2009–2018 *

Farai Mutamiri Farai Mutamiri is an Anglican bishop in Zimbabwe. H was appointed Bishop of Harare in 2019. Mutamiri was born on 8 October 1968. He began working in industry as a production line supervisor. He trained for ordination at Bishop Gaul Theological ...

2019–

References

External links

Official website
Anglicanism in Zimbabwe Religious organizations established in 1891 1891 establishments in the British Empire

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