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The Anglican Church of Kenya is a member church of the Anglican Communion . Currently there are twenty-nine Diocese s that make up the Church of Kenya , each one headed by a Bishop . Each diocese is divided into Archdeaconries , each headed by a senior Priest . The Archdeaconries are further subdivided into Parish es, headed by a parish priest. Parishes are subdivided into sub-parishes, headed by Lay Reader s. HISTORY The church was founded originally as the diocese of Eastern Equatorial Africa ( Uganda , Kenya, Tanzania ) in 1884 , with James Hannington as the first bishop; however, Anglican missionary activity had been present in the area since 1844 , when Dr. Johann Ludwig Krapf landed in Mombasa. In 1898 , the diocese was split into two, with the new diocese of Mombasa governing Kenya and northern Tanzania (the other diocese later became the Church Of Uganda ); northern Tanzania was separated from the diocese in 1927 . In 1955 , the diocese's first African bishops, Festo Olang’ and Obadiah Kariuki , were consecrated by the Archbishop Of Canterbury in Uganda (Olang’ would be elected the first African archbishop in 1970 ); in 1960 , the province of East Africa, comprising Kenya and Tanzania, was formed with L.J. Beecher as archbishop. Tanzania seceded from the province in 1970 and was created as Its Own Province . Manasses Kuria was the Archbishop of Kenya from 1980 to 1994. The current Archbishop of Kenya, as of 2006 , is The Most Rev. Benjamin M. Nzimbi . External links |
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