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Anglican Province of Central Africa - Archbishop’s final decisions

ANGLICAN-INFORMATION reports that Archbishop Bernard Malango who is due to retire on Saturday 8th September after his final Provincial Synod has effectively sacked the new Dean of the Province, The Rt Rev’d Trevor Mwamba, Bishop of Botswana.

With the apparent agreement of at least some of the bishops of the Central African Province a Zambian bishop has been appointed Dean in Mwamba’s place to oversee the Province in the interim period before new elections for an Archbishop or other reorganisation.

Archbishop Malango, freshly returned from assisting in the consecrations in Kenya of three American bishops for congregations that have split from the American Episcopal Church, has also, in the closing hours of his archiepiscopate, unilaterally cancelled the synodically agreed Provincial Court that was recently proffered as a solution to the long-running dispute over the failure of the Central African Court of Confirmation to endorse the election in 2005 of the Rev’d Nicholas Henderson as Bishop of Lake Malawi.

Archbishop Malango’s own diocese will become vacant in the New Year when he finally steps down as bishop of the Diocese of Upper Shire. With two dioceses vacant in the Province, constitutionally no new Archbishop can be elected until they are both filled.

In addition to acting against Bishop Mwamba, Archbishop Malango has openly criticised Bishop James Tengatenga Bishop of South Malawi for disagreeing with him.

Understandably, Bernard Malango’s actions have caused consternation in the Diocese of Lake Malawi where many had hoped that an orderly solution to the impasse over the election of their bishop, as agreed under the oversight of Bishop Mwamba, was at last achievable.

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