Anglican Church of Southern Africa
Intro
The Anglican Church of Southern Africa is the Anglican Communion province serving South Africa and neighboring territories in the region. Formerly called the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, it traces its provincial identity to the nineteenth century and today is led by the Archbishop of Cape Town while covering dioceses in South Africa, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, and Saint Helena.
Structure
The church uses standard Anglican episcopal polity, organizing parishes into dioceses, each led by its own bishop, while the provincial primate is the Archbishop of Cape Town. Wikipedia lists 25 dioceses in the present provincial structure.
Most dioceses are in South Africa, with one diocese each in Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, and Saint Helena. The province also notes that dioceses in Angola and Mozambique left in 2021 to form the separate Anglican Church of Mozambique and Angola.
| Country or territory | Dioceses | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 21 | Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Zululand, Grahamstown |
| Eswatini | 1 | Swaziland |
| Lesotho | 1 | Lesotho |
| Namibia | 1 | Namibia |
| Saint Helena | 1 | St Helena |
Source(s)
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Source: Intro adapted from the Wikipedia article "Anglican Church of Southern Africa". Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Source: Structure section adapted from the Organisation section of the Wikipedia article "Anglican Church of Southern Africa". Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Title image uses the flag of South Africa from Wikimedia Commons as a free visual fallback because the emblem shown on English Wikipedia was not confirmed as freely reusable in the reviewed sources.