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Christ Church is an Anglican cathedral in Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania. It belongs to the Anglican Church of Tanzania . It is a landmark historical church, [ 1 ] as well as one of the most prominent examples of early Christian architecture in East Africa .
The first known baptism in Tanzania was for an Indian family Itty Mathew and Grace Sunny Panakkal while they were living in Tanzania in 1982. [4] Robert Muhile was the first Tanzanian to join the Church who was baptized in Cairo, Egypt in 1991.
View of the cathedral of Christ Church, Zanzibar.. The Diocese of Zanzibar was founded in 1892, and developed separately from that of Eastern Equatorial Africa. Whilst mainland Tanzania was largely under the influence of evangelical missionary societies, Zanzibar was evangelised by Anglo-catholic missionaries, and represented a far more high church form of Anglicanism.
The Eastern Orthodox Church claims an estimated 200,000 adherents in Tanzania. [7] The United Methodist Church claims 8,371 members in Tanzania. [8] In 2020, the Vatican noted that 30.41% of the population are Catholic. [9] A 2015 study estimates some 180,000 believers in Christ from a Muslim background living in the country, most of them ...
The Church of the Province of West Africa was established in 1951 by the bishops of five West African dioceses (Accra, Lagos, Niger, Sierra Leone and the Diocese of Gambia and Guinea) with the consent of the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1977 they were joined by the Diocese of Liberia. In February 1979, the new Church of Nigeria was inaugurated ...
Anglican Church of Southern Africa – 2.3 million [145] Anglican Church of Tanzania – 2.0 million [146] Anglican Church of Rwanda – 1.0 million [147] Church of the Province of Central Africa – 900,000 [148] Anglican Church of Burundi – 800,000 [149] Church of Christ in Congo–Anglican Community of Congo – 500,000 [150]
Josephat Mathias Gwajima (born 19 December 1970) is a Tanzanian politician and preacher. He is bishop of his own Glory of Christ Tanzania Church (GCTC). In the October 2020 parliamentary election Gwajima won the Kawe Constituency against the former MP, Kawe Halima Mdee. Gwajima is a member of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party. [1]
Christianity is the largest religion in Tanzania, with a substantial Muslim minority. Smaller populations of Animists, practitioners of other faiths, and religiously unaffiliated people are also present. [2] [1] Tanzania is a secular state and freedom of religion is enshrined in the country's constitution.