Anglican Church of Mozambique and Angola
Intro
The Anglican Church of Mozambique and Angola is the Anglican Communion province for Angola and Mozambique. It was created in 2021 from dioceses that had belonged to the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, making it one of the Communion's newest provinces.
Structure
Wikipedia describes the province as a bi-national Anglican structure with dioceses in both Mozambique and Angola, overseen by a presiding bishop and provincial synod. The dioceses include older sees inherited from Southern African Anglican structures as well as several newer missionary dioceses created around the province's formation.
The current diocesan layout listed on Wikipedia is summarized below.
| Country grouping | Diocese | Status or note |
|---|---|---|
| Mozambique | Lebombo | Oldest diocese in the province |
| Mozambique | Niassa | Created from Lebombo in 1979 |
| Mozambique | Nampula | Missionary diocese inaugurated in 2019 |
| Mozambique | Pungue River | Missionary diocese inaugurated in 2021 |
| Mozambique | Maciene | Missionary diocese created from Lebombo |
| Mozambique | Inhambane | Missionary diocese created from Lebombo |
| Mozambique | Tete | Missionary diocese created from parts of Niassa and Lebombo |
| Mozambique | Zambesia | Missionary diocese later associated with Vicente Msosa |
| Angola | Good Shepherd | Successor structure to the earlier Diocese of Angola |
| Angola | Christ the King | New diocese inaugurated in 2021 |
| Angola | Central and South Angola | Missionary diocese inaugurated in 2021 |
| Angola | Divine Hope | Missionary diocese inaugurated in 2021 |
Source(s)
Source: No clearly free portrait of Vicente Msosa was located on Wikimedia Commons during verification, so this figure uses the flag of Mozambique from Wikimedia Commons. The file is public domain as a national flag.
Source: Intro adapted from the Wikipedia article "Anglican Church of Mozambique and Angola". Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Source: Structure summary adapted from the Wikipedia article "Anglican Church of Mozambique and Angola". Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Title image uses the flag of Mozambique from Wikimedia Commons, public domain as a national flag. It is used here as a fallback visual for the province because I did not confirm a clearly free church emblem on Commons during verification.