Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman
- Bishop of Kimberley & Kuruman.[1] The seat of the Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman is at St Cyprian's Cathedral, Kimberley. There had been so far 12 bishops of the See, though one of these served for two different periods of time.
Formation of the diocese
The
Diocese of Mashonalandinstead – an area also up until then administered from Bloemfontein.From 1907 to 1910 motions were passed and planning and fund-raising initiatives were being conducted in earnest towards founding a new Diocese of Kimberley. These included the "Million Shillings Fund" launched by
Dean of Pretoria, was the unanimous choice.[3] Gore Browne was consecrated in the Bloemfontein Cathedral on 29 June 1912. He was enthroned the following day as bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman, at St Cyprian's Cathedral.Geographical extent
The Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman has not been constant in extent and at times less than exactly defined. Taking over the western side of the Diocese of Boemfontein (now "of the Free State"), it also included some of the sparsely populated interior extremities of the Dioceses of Cape Town and of Grahamstown. The southern half of Bechuanaland Protectorate was added om 1915 and remained part of "K&K" (as Kimberley and Kuruman is often called) until Botswana's independence in 1966. This history flavoured liturgical usage there, which still resembles the style more of the South African Prayer Book than the Central African Prayer Book.[4] The 1952 diocesan synod was concerned to establish the boundaries of parishes; noting also a lack of clarity on "where is the Diocese" – "The Bishop called attention ... to the fact that certain places where at present the Diocese has Clergymen at work are not technically in the Diocese."[5]
Bishops
Tenure Incumbent Notes 1912 to 1928 Wilfrid Gore Browne(1859–1928) 1928 to 1943 Theodore Sumner Gibson(1885–1953) 1943 to 1951 John Hunter (1897–1965) 1951 to 1960 John Boys (1900–1972) 1961 to 1965 Philip William Wheeldon(1913–1992) 1965 to 1967 Clarence Edward Crowther(1929-2021) 1968 to 1976 Philip William Wheeldon(2nd spell)(Ibid) 1976 to 1983 Graham Charles Chadwick(1923–2007) 1983 to 1991 George Alfred Swartz(1928–2006) 1991 to 1996 Winston Njongonkulu Ndungane (b 1941) 1996 to 2006 Itumeleng Baldwin Moseki(b 1944) 2007 to 2020 Oswald Swartz(b 1953–) 2021 to present Brian Marajh (b 1960–) Notable clergy and people
Besides the bishops of the see (above) and the
bishop of False Bayand second woman to be elected as a bishop of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa and of the whole African continent.Current archdeaconries and parishes
Some of the parishes in the diocese date back to the beginnings of Anglican work on the
Diamond Fields and in Kimberley's hinterland, for example St Mary's, Barkly West and the Cathedral Parish of St Cyprian. They have multiplied in number, various parishes being subdivided or consolidated through time. It follows that boundaries have not been unchanging. The archdeaconry structure has been even more dynamic, responding to the needs of the day at different periods. In 2010 an experimental division between north and south was replaced when the archdeaconries of the Molopo, the Kgalagadi and the Karoo, additional to the Cathedral archdeaconry, were created. Currently these administrative units are the archdeaconries of the Cathedral, The Diamond Fields, Gariep, Kgalagadi, and Molopo, embracing the following parishes (Schedule of Archdeaconries as of May 2017):Cathedral
- The Cathedral Church of St Cyprian the Martyr, Kimberley.[6]
- St Alban's, De Beers
Archdeaconry of the Diamond Fields
- All Saints, Homevale
- St Matthew's, Barkly Road
- St Barnabas, Florianville
- St Mary Magdalene, Ritchie
- St Augustine's, West End
- St Paul's, Vergenoeg
- St Peter's, Greenpoint
- St Mary the Virgin, Barkly West – the oldest Parish Church in the Diocese
- St Francis, Roodepan
- St James, Galeshewe
Archdeaconry of Gariep
- All Saints, Paballelo
- St Andrew's, Prieska
- St Philip's, Boegoeberg
- St Matthew's, Oranjekruin, Upington
- Annunciation, Douglas
- St Luke's, Prieska
- Good Shepherd, Nonzwakazi, De Aar
- St Martin's, Breipaal, Douglas
- St Thomas, De Aar
[with St Anne's, Niekerkshoop; St Paul's, Marydale; St Barnabas, Britstown; St Andrew's, Philipstown; St Matthew's, Richmond]
Archdeaconry of the Kgalagadi
- St Mary-le-Bourne, Kuruman
- St Monica, Tsineng
- St Paul's, Mothibistad
- St Timothy, Seoding
- St Wilfred, Maruping
- St Peter's Wrenchville
- St Laurence, Danielskuil
- St John's, Bothithong
- St Michael and All Angels, Batlharos
- St Francis, Manyeding
- Good Shepherd
Several of these parishes have numerous outstations
Archdeaconry of the Molopo
- Resurrection, Mmabatho
- All Saints, Montshiwa
- St John the Evangelist, Mafikeng
- Transfiguration, Setlagole
- St Michael and All Angels, Lomanyaneng
- Holy Cross, Pudimong
- St Chad's, Taung
- St Mary's, Matalong
- All Saints, Pampierstad
- St Peter's, Ganyesa
- St Hubert's, Hartsvaal Parish
- St Augustine's Hartsvaal
- St George, Warrenton
- St Peter's, Ikhutseng
- St Stephen's, Vryburg
- St Philip's, Huhudi
- St John, Tlakgameng
Several of these parishes have numerous outstations
Arms of the diocese Coat of arms
The diocese assumed arms at the time of its inception, and had them granted by the College of Arms in 1953 : Per pale Argent and Sable, a cross potent counterchanged within a bordure Azure charged with eleven lozenges of the first.[7]
Relationship with Oxford
The diocese has a link partnership with the
Bishop Oswald Swartz to Lambeth Palace (and Oxford) in 2008, and by other senior clergy and people from both sides of the link, strengthened partnerships with focus areas on HIV/Aids and other key projects.[10] The Dean of Kimberley, the Very Revd Reginald Leeuw, represented his diocese at the inauguration of the Rt Revd Dr Steven Croft as Bishop of Oxford in 2016. A large contingent flew with Bishop Croft to Kimberley for a Link Summit in 2017,[11] and a meeting on environmental issues followed in Oxford a year later. A planned Link Summit to have taken place in Oxford in 2020 was called off owing to the COVID-19pandemic.References
- ^ New Bishops elected for Kimberley & Kuruman and Lesotho accessed 22 September 2021
- ISBN 978-0-949968-62-3– via David Philip.
- S.P.C.K.p. 515.
- ISBN 978-0-19-972389-8.
- ^ Highway 14(4) Oct 1952.
- ^ Aiken, Simon (8 May 2011). "The Archdeacon's Charge: The Very Revd Fr Simon Aiken in his capacity as Archdeacon of the Karoo, St Cyprian's Cathedral". stcypskimberley.blogspot.com. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- ISBN 978-0-620-28606-0.
- ^ "Oxford – K&K Link". Archived from the original on 21 February 2013.
- ^ Oxford-Kimberley & Kuruman Link This source suggests the start date was 1992
- ^ "The Oxford Kimberley & Kuruman Diocesan Link: Guidance for Parishes" (PDF). deddington.org.uk. n.d. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
- ^ Oxford-Kimberley & Kuruman Link
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