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Episcopal Elections in the Church of the Province of Central Africa

Posted On : August 20, 2009 10:58 AM | Posted By : Admin ACO
Related Categories: Central Africa

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> Northern Malawi

The Electoral College which sat at St Peter's, Lilongwe, Malawi on
Saturday 1st August 2009 elected the Revd Canon Fr Leslie Richard
Mtekateka as the Bishop of Northern Malawi. The See fell vacant after
Bishop Christopher Boyle resigned to take up a new post of Assistant
Bishop in the Diocese of Leicester in the UK.

Canon Mtekateka is presently serving as a parish priest in Karonga
District, Malawi. He is one of the long serving priests in the Diocese
having worked with the first Bishop of the Diocese Jack Biggers as his
Chaplain, Diocesan Secretary and Archdeacon. He also served under Bishop
Christopher Boyle.

> Lake Malawi

The Venerable Fr Francis Kaulanda, Archdeacon of Lilongwe, was elected
as Bishop to the vacant See of Lake Malawi by the Electoral College that
met at St Peter's, Lilongwe, Malawi on Saturday 1st August 2009.

The Diocese has been vacant since the passing on of Bishop Peter Nyanja
in March 2005.

Fr Francis is a graduate of Zomba Theological College and Mindolo
Ecumenical Foundation in Kitwe, Zambia. He is married with six children.
He is currently serving as a Diocesan Youth Coordinator, Priest in
Charge at Biwi and Archdeacon of Lilongwe.

> Bishop William Mchombo
> Acting Provincial Secretary

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