The Bishop of Zanzibar is the

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of an island diocese in the

Anglican Church of Tanzania The Anglican Church of Tanzania (ACT) is a province of the Anglican Communion based in Dodoma. It consists of 28 dioceses (27 on the Tanzanian mainland, and 1 on Zanzibar) headed by their respective bishops. It seceded from the Province of East A ...

. Its current bishop is Michael Hafidh. The bishop's seat is

Christ Church, Zanzibar Christ Church is an Anglican cathedral in Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania. It belongs to the Anglican Church of Tanzania. It is a landmark historical church, as well as one of the most prominent examples of early Christian architecture in East Afr ...

, the

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cathedral in

Stone Town Stonetown of Zanzibar ( ar, مدينة زنجبار الحجرية), also known as Mji Mkongwe ( Swahili for "old town"), is the old part of Zanzibar City, the main city of Zanzibar, in Tanzania. The newer portion of the city is known as Ng'ambo ...

Zanzibar Zanzibar (; ; ) is an insular semi-autonomous province which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania. It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of many small islands ...

Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...

Bishops

:Bishops of Zanzibar *18927 May 1894 (d.):

Charles Smythies Charles Alan Smythies (6 August 18447 May 1894) was a British colonial bishop in the 19th century. Life Smythies was born in Colchester, the son of the Rev. Charles Norfolk Smythies, vicar of St-Mary-at-the-Walls there, and his wife Isabella T ...

(previously

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until that See was split) *18951901 (res.): William Richardson *19011908 (res.):

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(translated from Likoma and to Northern Rhodesia *18 October 19082 November 1924 (d.): Frank Weston *19251943 (res.): Thomas Birley *1943''1963'': Bill Baker (diocese renamed in 1963 and 1965) Though the diocese was renamed "Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam" in 1963, the creation of separate dioceses for Dar es Salaam and for Tanga was already planned. When the Diocese of Dar es Salaam was erected in 1965, this remaining diocese was renamed "Zanzibar and Tanga". :Bishops of Zanzibar and Tanga *19631968 (res.): Bill Baker (Bishop of Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, 1963–1965; Bishop of Zanzibar and Tanga thereafter; became Assistant Bishop of Liverpool) *1968–1980: Yohana Jumaa (consecrated 25 April 1968, by Neil Russell, assistant bishop, at Korogwe) *19802001 (ret.):

John Ramadhani John Acland Ramadhani (born Zanzibar, 1 August 1932) is a former Tanzanian Anglican archbishop. His grandfather was Cecil Majaliwa, the first African Anglican priest of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa. His parents were Matthew Dougl ...

:Bishops of Zanzibar *20029 February 2006 (d.): Douglas Toto (Douglas Mathew Toto; consecrated 24 August 2002;Anglican Diocese of Zanzibar — Heritage
(Accessed 14 November 2021) died in post) *20062012: vacancy in See **20062010: Matthew Mhagama, Vicar-General **20102012: Michael Hafidh, Vicar-General *2012present: Michael Hafidh (consecrated 15 April 2012, by

Valentino Mokiwa Valentino Leonard Mokiwa (born 1954) is a former Tanzanian Anglican Archbishop. He was elected as the Primate and Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Tanzania in 2008 and occupied the position until 2013. Since being elected in April 2002, Mokiw ...

Archbishop of Tanzania The Anglican Church of Tanzania (ACT) is a province of the Anglican Communion based in Dodoma. It consists of 28 dioceses (27 on the Tanzanian mainland, and 1 on Zanzibar) headed by their respective bishops. It seceded from the Province of East A ...

)

Assistant bishops

On 24 March 1963, three men were consecrated bishops, to serve the diocese in anticipation of a planned three-way split: *1963–1965:

John Sepeku John Thomas Mhina Sepeku (1908November 1983) was the inaugural archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church of Tanzania, serving from 5 July 1970 until his resignation (in ill-health) effective 1 September 1978. Sepeku was educated at Hegono Theo ...

, assistant bishop in Dar-es-Salaam, became first bishop of the Diocese of Dar es Salaam on 10 July 1965. *1963–?: Yohana Lukindo, assistant bishop for the

Tanga Region Tanga Region (''Mkoa wa Tanga'' in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The region covers an area of . The region is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of Burundi. The regional capital is the mun ...

, was born 1921, ordained in 1953 and served as Archdeacon of Korogwe, 1961–63.Information sheet: installation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 27 June 1961
p. 10
*19631968 (ret.): Robert Neil Russell (called Neil; died 9 May 1984, Tanzania, aged 78) went to

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as a missionary in 1933 and later to

Tanga Tanga may refer to: Places Burkina Faso * , a town in eastern Burkina Faso * Tanga, Sidéradougou, a village in western Burkina Faso * Tanga-Pela, a village in northern-central Burkina Faso Other places * Tanga, Tanzania, a city and port on th ...

. He was consecrated a bishop in March 1963, to serve as an assistant bishop based on Zanzibar Island (

Unguja Unguja (also referred to as "Zanzibar Island" or simply "Zanzibar", in grc, Μενουθιάς, Menuthias – as mentioned in The ''Periplus of the Erythraean Sea'') is the largest and most populated island of the Zanzibar archipelago, in Tanza ...

). He retired to his native Scotland in 1968 and joined the

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, taking charge of

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while also serving as an

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. He returned to

in 1982 and later died there.

References

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