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Anglican Church of Kenya

Index Anglican Church of Kenya

The Anglican Church of Kenya is a province of the Anglican Communion, and it is composed by 33 dioceses. [1]

94 relations: Anglican Church in North America, Anglican Church of Kenya, Anglican Church of Tanzania, Anglican Communion, Anglican dioceses of Maseno, Anglican dioceses of Mombasa, Anglican dioceses of Mount Kenya, Anglican dioceses of Nakuru, Anglican sacraments, Anglicanism, Anointing, Archbishop of Canterbury, Archdeacon, Baptism, Baringo County, Benjamin Nzimbi, Bondo, Kenya, Book of Common Prayer, Bungoma, Butere, Catechism, Christian ethics, Church of Uganda, Confession (religion), Confirmation, Daniel arap Moi, David Gitari, Diocese, Ecumenism, Eldoret, Eliud Wabukala, Embu, Kenya, Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal polity, Episcopal see, Eucharist, Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, Festo Olang', Galia Sabar, Garissa, Geoffrey Fisher, Global Anglican Future Conference, Global South (Anglican), Heaven, Hell, Henry Okullu, Jackson Ole Sapit, James Hannington, Jesus, Johann Ludwig Krapf, ..., Kajiado, Kapsabet, Kenya, Kenya Defence Forces, Kericho, Kirinyaga County, Kitui, Lay reader, Leonard Beecher, List of the largest Protestant denominations, Lodwar, Machakos, Makueni County, Malindi, Manasses Kuria, Maralal, Marriage, Marsabit, Maseno, Mbeere people, Meru, Kenya, Mombasa, Mount Kenya, Mumias, Murang'a, Nairobi, Nakuru, Nambale, Nyahururu, Nyanza Province, Ordination, Parish, Personal ordinariate, Priest, Rector (ecclesiastical), Richard Hooker, Robert Ouko (politician), Second Coming, St Paul's Cathedral, Embu, Tanzania, Thika, Uganda, United States, World Council of Churches. Expand index (44 more) »

Anglican Church in North America

The Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) is a Christian denomination in the Anglican tradition in the United States and Canada.

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Anglican Church of Kenya

The Anglican Church of Kenya is a province of the Anglican Communion, and it is composed by 33 dioceses.

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Anglican Church of Tanzania

The Anglican Church of Tanzania (ACT) is a province of the Anglican Communion based in Dodoma.

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Anglican Communion

The Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion with 85 million members, founded in 1867 in London, England.

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Anglican dioceses of Maseno

The Anglican dioceses of Maseno are the Anglican presence in and around Maseno, the Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria, and the western slopes of Mount Elgon, south-west Kenya; they are part of the Anglican Church of Kenya.

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Anglican dioceses of Mombasa

The Anglican dioceses of Mombasa are the Anglican presence in and around Mombasa and south-east Kenya; they are part of the Anglican Church of Kenya.

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Anglican dioceses of Mount Kenya

The Anglican dioceses of Mount Kenya are the Anglican presence in east-central, north and north-east Kenya; they are part of the Anglican Church of Kenya.

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Anglican dioceses of Nakuru

The Anglican dioceses of Nakuru are the Anglican presence in and around Nakuru, west-central, north-east and south-central Kenya; they are part of the Anglican Church of Kenya.

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Anglican sacraments

In keeping with its prevailing self-identity as a via media or "middle path" of Western Christianity, Anglican sacramental theology expresses elements in keeping with its status as a church in the Catholic tradition and a church of the Reformation.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that evolved out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England following the Protestant Reformation.

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Anointing

Anointing is the ritual act of pouring aromatic oil over a person's head or entire body.

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Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Archdeacon

An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Syriac Orthodox Church, Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop.

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Baptism

Baptism (from the Greek noun βάπτισμα baptisma; see below) is a Christian sacrament of admission and adoption, almost invariably with the use of water, into Christianity.

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Baringo County

Baringo County is one of the 47 Counties of Kenya.

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Benjamin Nzimbi

Benjamin Paul Mwanzia Nzimbi (born Kitui District, 1945) is a Kenyan Anglican Archbishop.

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Bondo, Kenya

Bondo is a town in Siaya County of Kenya.

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Book of Common Prayer

The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) is the short title of a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion, as well as by the Continuing Anglican, Anglican realignment and other Anglican Christian churches.

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Bungoma

Bungoma is a town in Bungoma County of Kenya, bordered by Uganda in the west.

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Butere

Butere is a town in Kakamega County of the former Western Province of Kenya.

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Catechism

A catechism (from κατηχέω, "to teach orally") is a summary or exposition of doctrine and serves as a learning introduction to the Sacraments traditionally used in catechesis, or Christian religious teaching of children and adult converts.

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Christian ethics

Christian ethics is a branch of Christian theology that defines virtuous behavior and wrong behavior from a Christian perspective.

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Church of Uganda

The Church of the Province of Uganda (or Church of Uganda) is a member church of the Anglican Communion.

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Confession (religion)

Confession, in many religions, is the acknowledgment of one's sins (sinfulness) or wrongs.

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Confirmation

In Christianity, confirmation is seen as the sealing of Christianity created in baptism.

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Daniel arap Moi

Daniel Toroitich arap Moi (born 2 September 1924) is a former Kenyan politician who served as the second President of Kenya from 1978 to 2002.

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David Gitari

David Mukuba Gitari (16 September 1937 – 30 September 2013) was a Kenyan Anglican Archbishop.

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Diocese

The word diocese is derived from the Greek term διοίκησις meaning "administration".

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Ecumenism

Ecumenism refers to efforts by Christians of different Church traditions to develop closer relationships and better understandings.

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Eldoret

Eldoret is a principal city in western Kenya and the fifth largest in the country.

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Eliud Wabukala

Eliud Wamukekhe Wabukala (born Bungoma West District, 1951) is a Kenyan Anglican Archbishop notable as a leader in the conservative movement evident in the global "South".

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Embu, Kenya

Embu is a town located approximately northeast of Nairobi towards Mount Kenya.

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Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church is the United States-based member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

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Episcopal polity

An episcopal polity is a hierarchical form of church governance ("ecclesiastical polity") in which the chief local authorities are called bishops.

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Episcopal see

The seat or cathedra of the Bishop of Rome in the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano An episcopal see is, in the usual meaning of the phrase, the area of a bishop's ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

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Eucharist

The Eucharist (also called Holy Communion or the Lord's Supper, among other names) is a Christian rite that is considered a sacrament in most churches and an ordinance in others.

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Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans

The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) is a global network of conservative Anglican churches which formed in 2008 in response to what it claimed was an ongoing theological crisis in the worldwide Anglican Communion.

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Festo Olang'

Festo Habakkuk Olang' (Maseno, c. 1908/1914 - Nairobi, 3 February 2004) was a Kenyan Anglican Archbishop.

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Galia Sabar

Galia Sabar (גליה צבר, born 1963, Israel) is a Professor of African Studies at Tel Aviv University.

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Garissa

Garissa (Gaarisa) is the capital of Garissa County, Kenya.

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Geoffrey Fisher

Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth, (5 May 1887 – 15 September 1972) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 to 1961.

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Global Anglican Future Conference

The Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) was a seven-day conference of conservative Anglican bishops and leaders held in Jerusalem from 22 to 29 June 2008 to address the growing controversy of the divisions in the Anglican Communion, the rise of secularism, as well as concerns with HIV/AIDS and poverty.

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Global South (Anglican)

The Anglican Global South is a grouping of 25 of the 39 provinces of the Anglican Communion, plus the Anglican Church in North America as the 26th member.

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Heaven

Heaven, or the heavens, is a common religious, cosmological, or transcendent place where beings such as gods, angels, spirits, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or live.

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Hell

Hell, in many religious and folkloric traditions, is a place of torment and punishment in the afterlife.

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Henry Okullu

John Henry Okullu (1929, Ramba Village, Asembo Central Location, Siaya District, Nyanza Province – 1999) was a Kenyan Anglican bishop and theologian.

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Jackson Ole Sapit

Jackson Nasoore Ole Sapit (born 12 June 1964) is a Kenyan Anglican bishop.

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James Hannington

James Hannington (3 September 1847 – 29 October 1885) was an English Anglican missionary, saint and martyr.

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Jesus

Jesus, also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus Christ, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

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Johann Ludwig Krapf

Johann Ludwig Krapf (11 January 1810 – 26 November 1881) was a German missionary in East Africa, as well as an explorer, linguist, and traveler.

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Kajiado

Kajiado is a town in Kajiado County, Kenya.

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Kapsabet

Kapsabet is a town in Kenya.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.

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Kenya Defence Forces

The Kenya Defence Forces are the armed forces of the Republic of Kenya.

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Kericho

Kericho is the biggest town in Kericho County located in the highlands west of the Kenyan Rift Valley.

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Kirinyaga County

Kirinyaga County is a county in the former Central Province of Kenya.

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Kitui

Kitui is a town in Kenya, 180 kilometres east of Nairobi and 105 kilometres east of Machakos.

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Lay reader

A lay reader (in some jurisdictions simply reader) or licensed lay minister (LLM) is a layperson authorized by a bishop in the Anglican Communion to lead certain services of worship or lead certain parts of a service.

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Leonard Beecher

Leonard James Beecher (21 May 1906 – 16 December 1987) was an English-born Anglican Archbishop.

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List of the largest Protestant denominations

This is a list of the largest Protestant denominations.

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Lodwar

Lodwar is the largest town in north-western Kenya, located west of Lake Turkana on the A1 road.

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Machakos

Machakos also called Masaku is a town in Kenya, 63 kilometres southeast of Nairobi.

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Makueni County

Makueni County (formerly Makueni District) is a county in the former Eastern Province of Kenya.

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Malindi

Malindi (known as Melinde in antiquity) is a town on Malindi Bay at the mouth of the Galana River, lying on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya.

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Manasses Kuria

Manasses Kuria (Nairobi, 29 July 1929 - Nairobi, 19 September 2005) was a Kenyan Anglican Archbishop.

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Maralal

Maralal is a small hillside market town in northern Kenya, lying east of the Loroghi Plateau within Samburu County.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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Marsabit

Marsabit is a town in the northern Marsabit County in Kenya.

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Maseno

Maseno is a town in Kisumu County, Kenya.

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Mbeere people

The Mbeere or Ambeere people are a Bantu ethnic group inhabiting the former Mbeere District in the now defunct Eastern Province of Kenya.

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Meru, Kenya

Meru is a town in eastern Kenya.

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Mombasa

Mombasa is a city on the coast of Kenya.

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Mount Kenya

Mount Kenya is the highest mountain in Kenya and the second-highest in Africa, after Kilimanjaro.

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Mumias

Mumias is a town in Kakamega County of Kenya.

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Murang'a

Murang'a (or Muranga) is a town in Muranga County of Kenya.

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Nairobi

Nairobi is the capital and the largest city of Kenya.

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Nakuru

Nakuru is the fourth-largest city in Kenya after Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu.

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Nambale

Nambale is a settlement in Kenya's Busia County.

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Nyahururu

Nyahururu (formerly known as Thomson's Falls) is a town in Kenya, lying east of Nakuru.

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Nyanza Province

Nyanza Province (Mkoa wa Nyanza) was one of Kenya's eight administrative provinces before the formation of the 47 counties under the 2010 constitution.

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Ordination

Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart as clergy to perform various religious rites and ceremonies.

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Parish

A parish is a church territorial entity constituting a division within a diocese.

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Personal ordinariate

A personal ordinariate, sometimes called a "personal ordinariate for former Anglicans" or more informally an "Anglican ordinariate", is a canonical structure within the Catholic Church established in accordance with the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus of 4 November 2009 and its complementary norms.

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Priest

A priest or priestess (feminine) is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities.

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Rector (ecclesiastical)

A rector is, in an ecclesiastical sense, a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations.

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Richard Hooker

Richard Hooker (March 25, 1554 – 3 November 1600) was an English priest in the Church of England and an influential theologian.

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Robert Ouko (politician)

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Second Coming

The Second Coming (sometimes called the Second Advent or the Parousia) is a Christian and Islamic belief regarding the future (or past) return of Jesus Christ after his incarnation and ascension to heaven about two thousand years ago.

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St Paul's Cathedral, Embu

St Paul's Cathedral, Embu is a Cathedral of the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) located in the north of the town of Embu.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a sovereign state in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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Thika

Thika (pronounced) is an industrial town in Kiambu County, Kenya, lying on the A2 road north east of Nairobi, near the confluence of the Thika and Chania Rivers.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda (Jamhuri ya Uganda), is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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World Council of Churches

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide inter-church organization founded in 1948.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_Church_of_Kenya

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