The Right Reverend Maimbo Mndolwa |
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Bishop of Tanga | |
Church | Anglican Church of Tanzania |
See | Tanga |
In office | 4 September 2012- |
Orders | |
Consecration | 2012 by Valentino Mokiwa |
Personal details | |
Born | 1968 |
Maimbo William Mndolwa (born 1968) is a Tanzanian Anglican bishop. He is the Bishop of the Diocese of Tanga and was elected Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church of Tanzania on 15 February 2018. He is married to Frida.
Mndolwa served at the Army before becoming an Anglican priest. Mndolwa studied at St. Mark's Theological College, in Dar es Salaam, and at the College of the Transfiguration, in Grahamstown, South Africa. He also studied at the Virginia Theological Seminary, in Alexandria, Virginia, in the United States, where he earned a Post-Graduation Diploma in Theology in 1999. He became a Master of Theology at the Akrofi-Christaller Memorial Center for Mission Research and Applied Theology and a Ph.D. in Theology at the University of KwaZulu Natal, in South Africa. He earned a D.D. at the Virginia Theological Seminary in 2014.
He was consecrated the second Bishop of the Diocese of Tanga at 4 September 2012. He was elected the seventh Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church of Tanzania at the Synod held on 15 February 2018. He will succeed Jacob Chimeledya on May 2018. He is an Anglo-Catholic.