Episcopal Church of the Sudan
| Province of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sudan | |
|---|---|
| Primate | Daniel Deng Bul |
| Headquarters | Juba, South Sudan |
| Territory | South Sudan, Sudan |
| Members | 4.5 million |
| Website | sudan |
The Province of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sudan, formerly known as Episcopal Church of Sudan, is a province of the Anglican Communion located in South Sudan and Sudan. The province consists of 41 dioceses, each headed by a bishop. The current archbishop and primate is the Most Rev. Daniel Deng Bul.
The episcopal see of the Archbishop of South Sudan and Sudan is at Juba. The incumbent serves the church as both its Primate and its Metropolitan archbishop and is titled "Archbishop of South Sudan and Sudan, and Bishop of Juba". He represents the province to the rest of the Anglican Communion, and serves on the international Primates' Meeting. In February 2008, the Episcopal Church of Sudan elected Bishop Daniel Deng Bul of the Diocese of Renk to serve as its next archbishop, succeeding Archbishop Joseph Marona, who retired on 31 December 2007 after serving seven years in the office.
The first major Anglican mission in Sudan was founded in Omdurman in 1899, under the auspices of the Church Mission Society. The mission led to widespread conversion to Christianity throughout southern Sudan. Missionary activity came first under the Diocese in Jerusalem, and then, in 1920, as part of the new Diocese of Egypt and the Sudan, with Llewellyn Henry Gwynne as its first bishop. As the pace of growth continued, a separate Diocese of the Sudan was formed with its own bishop in 1945. In 1957, oversight for the Diocese of the Sudan was transferred from the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Archbishop in Jerusalem. In 1974, when the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East underwent structural reform, Sudan became an independent province of four dioceses.
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