The Diocese of Botswana is one of 15 dioceses of the Anglican

Church of the Province of Central Africa The Church of the Province of Central Africa is part of the Anglican Communion, and includes 15 dioceses in Botswana, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The Primate of the Church is the Archbishop of Central Africa. Albert Chama is the current arc ...

, a

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

of the

Anglican Communion The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion after the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Founded in 1867 in London, the communion has more than 85 million members within the Church of England and other ...

. It is a member of the Botswana Council of Churches.

List of Bishops of Botswana

* 1972–1978: C. Shannon Mallory * 1979–2000:

Walter Khotso Makhulu Walter Paul Khotso Makhulu (born Johannesburg 1935) is an emeritus South African-born Anglican archbishop of Central Africa. Makhulu was educated at St Peter's Theological College, Rosettenville and Selly Oak College, Birmingham.‘MAKHULU ...

, also Archbishop of Central Africa from 1980 to 2000 * 2000–200?:

Theo Naledi Theophilus Naledi is a retired Bishop of Botswana in the Church of the Province of Central Africa, who was born at Bothithong near Vryburg in South Africa in 1936. Early career Naledi had his primary education at Bothithong, going to nearby Tau ...

* 2005–2013:

Trevor Mwamba Musonda Trevor Selwyn Mwamba (born 1958), known as Trevor Mwamba, is an Anglican bishop. He was consecrated Bishop of Botswana on 6 February 2005. He tendered his resignation as Bishop of Botswana on 30 September 2012 – the day on which Botswa ...

* 2013- :

Metlhayotlhe Beleme Metlhayotlhe Beleme (born 1962, Molepolole) is an Anglican bishop in Botswana. Beleme trained as an electrician and worked at the Jwaneng diamond mine until 1989. He studied for the priesthood at Lelapa la Jesu Seminary; and at the National Univ ...

References

External links

Diocesan website
Anglicanism in Botswana

Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label= Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalaha ...

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