The Anglican Church of Kenya is part of the Anglican Communion, and includes 29 dioceses. The Primate of the Church is the Archbishop of Kenya. The Most Rev. Benjamin M. Nzimbi has served in this position since 2006.
The Church became part of the Province of East Africa in 1960, but by 1970 Kenya and Tanzania were divided into separate Provinces.
The church was founded originally as the diocese of Eastern Equatorial Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzani...
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The Anglican Church of Kenya is part of the Anglican Communion, and includes 29 dioceses. The Primate of the Church is the Archbishop of Kenya. The Most Rev. Benjamin M. Nzimbi has served in this position since 2006.
The Church became part of the Province of East Africa in 1960, but by 1970 Kenya and Tanzania were divided into separate Provinces.
The church was founded originally as the diocese of Eastern Equatorial Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania) in 1884, with James Hannington as the first bishop; however, Anglican missionary activity had been present in the area since 1844, when Dr. Johann Ludwig Krapf landed in Mombasa. The first Africans were ordained to the priesthood in 1885. In 1898, the diocese was split into two, with the new diocese of Mombasa governing Kenya and northern Tanzania (the other diocese later became the Church of Uganda); northern Tanzania was separated from the diocese in 1927. Mass conversions of Africans began as early as 1910. In 1955, the diocese's first...
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