Bernard Malango

The Most Reverend Bernard Malango
Archbishop emeritus of Central Africa
Church	Church of the Province of Central Africa
Successor	Albert Chama
Orders
Ordination	1971
Consecration	1988
Personal details
Born	1943

Bernard Amos Malango (born 1943) is a Zambian Anglican priest. He was the Anglican Archbishop of Central Africa from 2000 to September 2007, when he retired.

He started is career as a draughtsman. He graduated from St John's Seminary, and was later sent to Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated with the degree of M. Phil.

Malango attended St John's Seminary in Lusaka, Zambia, in 1971, obtaining a Diploma in Theology. He was ordained in 1971, became a priest in 1972 and was consecrated in 1988. He obtained a Master of Philosophy at University of Dublin in 1984.

From 1974 to 1988, Malango was in Malawi. He was Bishop's Chaplain in Malosa from 1974 to 1976; from 1978 to 1981 he was Executive Secretary/Treasurer of ACLCA; and from 1984 to 1988 he was Convenor in Malawi of the Islam Project in Africa.

From 1988 to 2002, he was Bishop of Northern Zambia, became Archbishop of Central Africa in 2000 until his retirement in 2007. He has also been the Bishop of Upper Shire since 2002.

His office was located in Chilema, near Zomba, Malawi.

Malango was a member of the Lambeth Commission on Communion which drafted the Windsor Report.

His views on trying to keep the Anglican Communion together in spite of differences over homosexuality have put him at odds with other bishops in the province, specifically former bishop Nolbert Kunonga of Zimbabwe.

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