The Province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan is a province of the

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, comprising the Sudan. It is the 39th Anglican province, created in a ceremony that took place in All Saints Cathedral,

Khartoum Khartoum or Khartum ( ; ar, الخرطوم, Al-Khurṭūm, din, Kaartuɔ̈m) is the capital of Sudan. With a population of 5,274,321, its metropolitan area is the largest in Sudan. It is located at the confluence of the White Nile, flowing n ...

, on 30 July 2017. The first archbishop and primate is Ezekiel Kondo.

History

The entire country of Sudan comprised the Province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan, created in 1976. After the secession of

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, in 2011, it was decided to create an internal (or metropolitical) province comprising the dioceses of Sudan, but to maintain the overall unity of the church across Sudan and South Sudan, at the General Synod, in November 2013. The Internal Province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan was created, comprising the 5 dioceses situated in Northern Sudan. Ezekiel Kondo, the Bishop of Khartoum, was elected the first archbishop on 4 April 2014. Many in Sudan believed that this internal province should be given full autonomy as a new Anglican province, with the expectation that the

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would become archbishop and primate. In 2016 a formal application was made to the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) for the internal province of Sudan to be granted autonomy. In July 2016 a team led by the archbishop of Adelaide and the vice chairman of the ACC carried out a fact-finding mission in northern Sudan. This team reported back to the ACC to enable a formal response to the application for autonomy. In March 2017 it was announced that the ACC had decided that the internal province of Sudan would become the 39th province of the

, with Ezekiel Kondo, Archbishop of Khartoum, as the first archbishop and primate. The constitution of the new province took place on 30 July 2017, in the presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury,

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Membership

There are approximately 1,000,000 Anglicans in Sudan.

Archbishops

* Ezekiel Kondo, 2017–present

Dioceses

* El Obeid * Kadugli and Nuba Mountains * Khartoum * Port Sudan * Wad Medani

Anglican realignment

The new province is associated to the Global South and the Global Anglican Future Conference. Ezekiel Kondo, then Archbishop of the Internal Province of Sudan, was one of the eight Anglican archbishops that attended Foley Beach enthronement as Archbishop and Primate of the

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, on 9 October 2014, at the Church of the Apostles, in

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. The province wasn't able to send representatives to GAFCON III, held in

Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...

, on 17–22 June 2018, due to the fact that Sudan doesn't allow their citizens to travel to

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.GAFCON III largest pan-Anglican gathering since Toronto Congress of 1963, Anglican Ink, 20 June 2018
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References

External links

The Episcopal Church of Sudan at the Anglican Communion Official WebsiteProvince of the Episcopal Church of Sudan Official Website
{{Authority control Sudan Anglican realignment denominations Christian organizations established in 2017 Anglicanism in Sudan Sudan