| Province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan | |
|---|---|
| Classification | Protestant |
| Orientation | Anglican |
| Scripture | Holy Bible |
| Theology | Anglican doctrine |
| Polity | Episcopal |
| Primate | Ezekiel Kondo |
| Headquarters | Khartoum,Sudan |
| Territory | Sudan |
| Members | 1.1 million |
TheProvince of the Episcopal Church of Sudan is a province of theAnglican Communion, comprising theSudan. It is the 39th Anglican province, created in a ceremony that took place in All Saints Cathedral,Khartoum, on 30 July 2017. The first archbishop and primate isEzekiel Kondo.[1]
The entire country ofSudan comprised the Province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan, created in 1976. After the secession ofSouth Sudan, in 2011, it was decided to create an internal (or metropolitical) province comprising the dioceses ofSudan, but to maintain the overall unity of the church across Sudan and South Sudan, at the General Synod, in November 2013.[2] The Internal Province of the Episcopal Church of Sudan was created, comprising the 5 dioceses situated in Northern Sudan.Ezekiel 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 themetropolitan archbishop would become archbishop and primate. In 2016 a formal application was made to theAnglican 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 theAnglican 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]
There are approximately 1,000,000 Anglicans inSudan.[7]
The new province is associated to theGlobal South and theGlobal Anglican Future Conference.Ezekiel Kondo, then archbishop of the Internal Province of Sudan, was one of the eight Anglican archbishops that attendedFoley Beach enthronement as archbishop and primate of theAnglican Church in North America, on 9 October 2014, at the Church of the Apostles, inAtlanta, United States.[8]
The province wasn't able to send representatives toGAFCON III, held inJerusalem between 17 and 22 June 2018, due to the fact thatSudan did not allow their citizens to travel toIsrael.[9]
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