Diocese of Zululand
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Diocese of Zululand | |
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Location | |
Ecclesiastical province | Southern Africa |
Metropolitan | Cape Town |
Statistics | |
Parishes | 55 |
Information | |
Rite | Anglican |
Cathedral | Cathedral of St. Michael and All Angels, Eshowe |
Current leadership | |
Bishop | Vikinduku Mnculwane[1] |
Website | |
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The Diocese of Zululand is a diocese of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa which covers the part of the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal that lies to the northeast of the Buffalo and Tugela Rivers. It is divided in ten archdeaconries.
History
The establishment of the Anglican Diocese of Zululand has its roots in the visit of
In 1860, Colenso sent Robert Robertson from Umlazi Mission outside Durban, to start work at KwaMagwaza. After Colenso was excommunicated by the Bishop of Cape Town, Robertson refused to continue to accept him as his bishop. In 1870 on the 8 May, at the Whitehall Chapel in London, Edward Wilkinson was consecrated as the first bishop of the new diocese. He was given the title of Bishop for the Zulus and the tribes towards the Zambezi.
The bishop settled at KwaMagwaza. From there he trekked north, establishing missions in
The diocese today
Today the Diocese of Zululand comprises 283 congregations – from the Tugela River in the South to the borders of Mozambique and Swaziland in the North, and inland to the Diocese of the Highveld. Each parish has a number of out stations and the diocese is served both by a large number of committed priests and by the Sisters of the Holy Name, a community of Zulu nuns.
List of bishops
- Edward Wilkinson 1870–1875
- Douglas MacKenzie 1880–1890
- William Carter 1891–1902
- Wilmot Vyvyan 1903–1929
- Charles Aylen 1930–1935
- Albert Lee 1935–1947
- Eric Trapp 1947–1957
- Tom Savage 1958–1966
- Alphaeus Zulu 1966–1975
- Lawrence Bekisisa Zulu1975–1993
- Peter Harker 1993–1997
- Anthony Mdletshe 1997–2005
- Dino Gabriel 2005–2015
- Monument Makhanya 2016 -2019[2]
- Vikinduku Mnculwane[1] 2021
Coat of arms
The diocese assumed arms around the time of its inception, and had them granted by the College of Arms in 1954 : Sable, a bamboo cross eradicated at the foot proper, on a canton Azure bordered Argent a mullet also Argent, a base Vert charged with an anchor Or.[3]
References
- ^ a b Nzimande, Makhosi (20 May 2021). "Diocese of Zululand elects new Bishop". anglicanchurchsa.org. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
- ^ "Bishop of Zululand, Monument Makhanya, steps down after sexual misconduct allegation". anglicannews.org. 16 January 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
- ISBN 978-0-620-28606-0.
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