The Episcopal Church of the Sudan is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion in Sudan. The province consists of twenty-four dioceses, each headed by a bishop. One of the diocesan bishops is elected to serve as Archbishop of the Sudan, and represent the province to the rest of the Communion as its primate. The Most Reverend Joseph Biringi Hassan Marona is the current archbishop; he also serves as Bishop of Juba. An ecclesiastical province is a unit of religious government existing in certain Christian churches. ... The Anglican Communion uses the compass rose as its symbol, signifying its worldwide reach and decentralized nature. ... Pope Pius XI blesses Bishop Stephen Alencastre as fifth Apostolic Vicar of the Hawaiian Islands in a Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace window. ... A bishop is an ordained member of the Christian clergy who, in certain Christian churches, holds a position of authority. ... Primate (from the Latin Primus, first) is a title or rank bestowed on some bishops in certain Christian churches. ... The Most Reverend (Most Rev. ...

The first major Anglican mission in Sudan was founded in Omdurman in 1899, under the auspices of the Church Mission Society. The mission led to widespread conversion to Christianity throughout southern Sudan. Missionary activity came first under the Diocese in Jerusalem, and then, in 1920, as part of the new Diocese of Egypt and the Sudan, with Llewelyn Gwynne as its first bishop. As the pace of growth continued, a separate Diocese of the Sudan was formed with its own bishop in 1945. In 1957, oversight for the Diocese of the Sudan was transfered from the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Archbishop in Jerusalem. In 1974, when the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East underwent structural reform, Sudan became an independent province of four dioceses. The term Anglican (from medieval Latin ecclesia Anglicana meaning the English church) is used to describe the people, institutions, and churches that adhere to the religious traditions developed by the established Church of England, the Anglican Communion and the Continuing Anglican Churches, a loosely affiliated group of independent churches which... Since the Lausanne Congress of 1974, a widely-accepted definition of a Christian mission has been to form a viable indigenous church-planting movement. ... Map of Sudan with Khartoum Map of Ohmdurman with Khartoum and Bahri Omdurman is a city on the river Nile in Sudan, opposite the capital, Khartoum. ... The Church Mission Society (formerly the Church Missionary Society) is a voluntary society working with the Anglican Church and other Protestant Christians around the world. ... Arms of the see of Canterbury The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior clergyman of the established Church of England and symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. ... The Episcopal Church of Jerusalem and the Middle East is one of the geographically largest and most diverse Anglican church provinces, stretching from Iran in the east to Tunisia in the west, and Cyprus in the north to Somalia in the south. ...

Due to continued growth and displacement due to the Second Sudanese Civil War, the province had eleven dioceses in 1993 and has twenty-four today. Most of the dioceses are small (due to poor transportation) and clustered around the south of the country. The Episcopal Church has played a prominent role in the peace process in Sudan. Today, four large dioceses cover the north of Sudan (Khartoum, Port Sudan, El Obeid and Kdugli). The other twenty dioceses cover Southern Sudan. The Second Sudanese Civil War started in 1983, although it is most accurately a continuation of the First Sudanese Civil War of 1955 to 1972. ... Southern Sudan is a region of Sudan. ...

Dioceses

• Bor
• Cueibet
• El-Obeid
• Ezo (formed out of Yambio Diocese)
• Ibba (formed out of Maridi Diocese)
• Juba
• Kadugli & Nuba Mountains
• Kajo Keji
• Khartoum
• Lainya
• Lui (formed out of Mundri Diocese)
• Malakal
• Maridi
• Mundri
• Port Sudan
• Rejaf
• Renk (formed out of Bor Diocese)
• Rokon (formed out of Juba Diocese)
• Rumbek
• Torit
• Wau
• Yambio
• Yei
• Yirol (formed out of Rumbek Diocese)

External links

• Official webpage of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan

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