Anglican Church of Kenya
Intro
The Anglican Church of Kenya is the Anglican Communion province for Kenya and traces its roots to nineteenth-century missionary work in East Africa. It became a separate province in 1970 after Kenya and Tanzania were divided from the former Province of East Africa, and it now counts several million members across the country.
Structure
The church is governed episcopally through 41 dioceses, each headed by a bishop. The national primate is based at All Saints' Cathedral Diocese in Nairobi, while the dioceses are commonly grouped under four regional clusters that developed from older missionary centers.
Those clusters are Mombasa, Maseno, Mount Kenya, and Nakuru. Together they cover the whole country, from older coastal dioceses to newer missionary areas in northern Kenya.
| Cluster | Jurisdictions listed in Wikipedia | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Mombasa | 11 | All Saints' Cathedral, Nairobi, Mombasa, Malindi, Garissa |
| Maseno | 11 | Bondo, Bungoma, Butere, Maseno East |
| Mount Kenya | 11 | Embu, Kirinyaga, Meru, Mount Kenya Central |
| Nakuru | 8 | Eldoret, Kericho, Nakuru, Nyahururu |
Source(s)
Source: Image from Wikimedia Commons by CrÃstico. The file is a 2016 group photograph of Anglican primates and bishops in Cairo and its Commons annotations identify Jackson Ole Sapit in the back row. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Source: Intro adapted from the Wikipedia article "Anglican Church of Kenya". Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Source: Structure section adapted from the "Structure" section of the Wikipedia article "Anglican Church of Kenya". Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Title image uses the flag of Kenya from Wikimedia Commons as a free visual fallback because the church logo shown on English Wikipedia is not clearly available from a free repository in the sources reviewed here. Public domain.