Province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan

The Province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan is a province

Province of the Episcopal
of the Anglican Communion, comprising the Sudan. It is the 39th
Anglican province, created in a ceremony that took place in All Church of Sudan
Saints Cathedral, Khartoum, on 30 July 2017. The first archbishop Classification Protestant
and primate is Ezekiel Kondo.[1] Orientation Anglican
Scripture Holy Bible
History Theology Anglican
doctrine
The entire country of Sudan comprised the Province of the
Episcopal Church of Sudan, created in 1976. After the secession of Polity Episcopal
South Sudan, in 2011, it was decided to create an internal (or Primate Ezekiel Kondo
metropolitical) province comprising the dioceses of Sudan, but to
Headquarters Khartoum,
maintain the overall unity of the church across Sudan and South
Sudan
Sudan, at the General Synod, in November 2013.[2] The Internal
Province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan was created, Territory Sudan
comprising the 5 dioceses situated in Northern Sudan. Ezekiel Members 1.1 million
Kondo, the Bishop of Khartoum, was elected the first archbishop
on 4 April 2014.[3]

Many in Sudan believed that this internal province should be given full autonomy as a new Anglican
province, with the expectation that the metropolitan archbishop would become archbishop and primate. In
2016 a formal application was made to the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) for the internal province
of Sudan to be granted autonomy. In July 2016 a team led by the archbishop of Adelaide and the vice
chairman of the ACC carried out a fact-finding mission in northern Sudan. This team reported back to the
ACC to enable a formal response to the application for autonomy.[4] In March 2017 it was announced that
the ACC had decided that the internal province of Sudan would become the 39th province of the Anglican
Communion, with Ezekiel Kondo, Archbishop of Khartoum, as the first archbishop and primate. The
constitution of the new province took place on 30 July 2017, in the presence of the Archbishop of
Canterbury, Justin Welby.[5][6]

Membership
There are approximately 1,000,000 Anglicans in Sudan.[7]

Archbishops
Ezekiel Kondo, 2017–present

Dioceses
El Obeid
Kadugli and Nuba Mountains
Khartoum
 Port Sudan
Wad Medani

Anglican realignment
The new province is associated to the Global South and the Global
Anglican Future Conference. Ezekiel Kondo, then archbishop of
the Internal Province of Sudan, was one of the eight Anglican
archbishops that attended Foley Beach enthronement as archbishop
and primate of the Anglican Church in North America, on 9
October 2014, at the Church of the Apostles, in Atlanta, United
States.[8]
Map of the Catholic (red) and
The province wasn't able to send representatives to GAFCON III, Anglican (blue) bishoprics in Sudan
held in Jerusalem between 17 and 22 June 2018, due to the fact that and South Sudan, 2017.
Sudan did not allow their citizens to travel to Israel.[9]

References
1. "Celebration as Sudan becomes Anglican Communion 39th province, Anglican Communion
News Service, 31 July 2017" (https://web.archive.org/web/20190213040249/https://www.an
glicannews.org/features/2017/07/celebrations-as-sudan-becomes-anglican-communions-39
th-province.aspx). Archived from the original (http://www.anglicannews.org/features/2017/07/
celebrations-as-sudan-becomes-anglican-communions-39th-province.aspx) on 13 February
2019. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
2. "Sudan synod rejects call to divide: The Church of England Newspaper, December 13,
2013" (http://geoconger.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/sudan-synod-rejects-call-to-divide-the-c
hurch-of-england-newspaper-december-13-2013/). Conger. 18 December 2013. Retrieved
5 March 2015.
3. "An Archbishop for Northern Sudan" (https://web.archive.org/web/20150923172218/http://w
ww.anglicanink.com/article/archbishop-northern-sudan). Archived from the original (http://ww
w.anglicanink.com/article/archbishop-northern-sudan) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved
5 March 2015.
4. Report on visiting team at ACNS (http://www.anglicannews.org/news/2016/07/sudans-anglic
ans-await-decision-on-province.aspx).
5. "Sudan announced as a new Province within the Anglican Communion, Anglican
Communion News Service, 10 March 2017" (https://web.archive.org/web/20170911131125/
http://www.anglicannews.org/news/2017/03/sudan-announced-as-a-new-province-within-the
-anglican-communion.aspx). Archived from the original (http://www.anglicannews.org/news/
2017/03/sudan-announced-as-a-new-province-within-the-anglican-communion.aspx) on 11
September 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
6. "Celebration as Sudan becomes Anglican Communion 39th province, Anglican Communion
News Service, 31 July 2017" (https://web.archive.org/web/20190213040249/https://www.an
glicannews.org/features/2017/07/celebrations-as-sudan-becomes-anglican-communions-39
th-province.aspx). Archived from the original (http://www.anglicannews.org/features/2017/07/
celebrations-as-sudan-becomes-anglican-communions-39th-province.aspx) on 13 February
2019. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
7. "Celebrations in Sudan as new internal provincial Archbishop enthroned, Anglican
Communion News Service, 28 July 2014" (https://web.archive.org/web/20181016135108/htt
p://www.anglicannews.org/news/2014/07/celebrations-in-sudan-as-new-internal-provincial-a
 rchbishop-enthroned.aspx). Archived from the original (http://www.anglicannews.org/news/2
014/07/celebrations-in-sudan-as-new-internal-provincial-archbishop-enthroned.aspx) on 16
October 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
8. "ATLANTA: 2000 Anglicans Participate in Historic Investiture of New Anglican Archbishop -
Virtueonline – The Voice for Global Orthodox Anglicanism" (https://web.archive.org/web/201
41205110939/http://www.virtueonline.org/atlanta-2000-anglicans-participate-historic-investit
ure-new-anglican-archbishop). Archived from the original (http://www.virtueonline.org/atlanta
-2000-anglicans-participate-historic-investiture-new-anglican-archbishop) on 5 December
2014. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
9. GAFCON III largest pan-Anglican gathering since Toronto Congress of 1963, Anglican Ink,
20 June 2018 (http://anglican.ink/2018/06/20/gafcon-iii-largest-pan-anglican-gathering-since
-toronto-congress-of-1963/)

External links
The Episcopal Church of Sudan at the Anglican Communion Official Website (http://www.an
glicancommunion.org/structures/member-churches/member-church.aspx?church=sudan)
Province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan Official Website (http://www.sudan.anglican.org/)

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