History
Dar es Salaam was formerly within the Diocese of Zanzibar, which in 1963 was renamed the Diocese of Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam. This diocese was split and the new Diocese of Dar-es-Salaam inaugurated on 10 July 1965. John Sepeku had been serving as an assistant bishop of Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam. He was installed as the first diocesan Bishop of Dar es Salaam on the diocese's inauguration The Anglican Church of Tanzania was inaugurated in 1970 after the Province of East Africa was divided into the Province of Kenya and the Province of Tanzania. Sepeku remained bishop of the diocese of Dar es Selaam, retaining office while also Archbishop of Tanzania, until his death in 1983.
On 1 April 1984 the Rt. Rev. Christopher Mlangwa was consecrated as Bishop of Dar-es-Salaam. He was known for his simplicity and charismatic life as well as his unifying influence. He died in 1991 soon after he had to retire due to a 3 year kidney transplant complications. His wife was given a house in Dar es Saalaam to live as had been the custom to give bishops' widows home in the diocese of Dar es Salaam. He left an Arabic-Swahili style 3 bedroom house with an inner courtyard in the busy town of Korogwe in Tanga, which he had bought in his early service as priest in the 1960s. He had given the house to be used by the Diocese of Tanga and Zanzibar by then, to house their priests and any christian. The house was given back to the family upon his death,to which it has been turned into a commercial property by the daughters (Susan Mlangwa - surviving daughter, 2023) Both Sepeku and Mlangwa were from Tanga Region. During his service, he facilitated the study abroad of the then father Valentino Mokiwa (a Mzigua from Tanga) who was elected in 2002., as the fourth Bishop of Dar es Salaam.
Basil Mattiya Sambano was the third bishop, holding office from 1992 to 2001, when he retired. Valentino Mokiwa, a graduate of Virginia Theological Seminary, became bishop of Dar es Salaam in April 2002. He was elected Archbishop of Tanzania on 28 February 2008 and installed on 25 May 2008, replacing Archbishop Donald Leo Mtetemela.
In 2013 there was a hard-fought election for the position of Archbishop of Tanzania. The contestants were the evangelical Jacob Chimeledya and the Anglo-Catholic incumbent archbishop of Tanzania and bishop of Dar es Salaam Valentino Mokiwa. Chimeledya won the election with the support of bishops from the Wagogo tribe. Mokiwa's supporters claimed that the electors had been bribed by foreigners who favored Chimeledya, but eventually Mokiwa accepted the result. Several of the Anglo-Catholic dioceses, including Dar es Salaam, withdrew support for the national church.
In 2016 Chimeledya launched an investigation by the House of Bishops that found that Mokiwa had embezzled funds of his diocese, although Mokiwa claimed he was innocent and the charges had political motivation. On 7 January 2017 Chimeledya deposed Mokiwa. On 2 March 2017 Chimeledya licensed Augustino Ramadhani, a former Chief Justice of Tanzania, as a priest of the Diocese of Mpwapwa and appointed him to lead St Albans Cathedral Church in Dar es Salaam in place of Mokiwa. Ramadhani was episcopal vicar of the diocese until 4 Feb 2018 when the Right Reverend Jackson Sosthenes was consecrated bishop of the diocese. Sosthenes had been educated at the evangelical Trinity School for Ministry in the United States and was seen as a supporter of Archbishop Chimeledya.
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Events of 2020 in Tanzania.
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