The Right Reverend
Esron Yuba Kaziri
Kahama, Tanzania
From the Apostles to Canterbury
346 bishopsThe same for every diocese in this app.
- The Twelve Apostles 12
- Rome — the undivided Church 80
- Jerusalem 51
- Lyons 33
- St David’s — Wales 65
- Canterbury 103
How these lines reach Canterbury
- Rome668Vitalian consecrates Theodore of Tarsus
- Jerusalemby tradition, to the founding of the Welsh see → St David’s
- St David’s1414Henry Chicheley held St David’s, then Canterbury
- LyonsAetherius supported Augustine’s mission, but no consecration is documented
- The English Reformation — the see passes from Roman obedience to the Church of England (Cranmer, 1533)
The line of Kahama 5 bishops
What do the numbers and labels beside each name mean?
- 2 This bishop's own rank — e.g. "2nd Presiding Bishop." The list's real order is the order names appear top to bottom, which can legitimately run 2, 1, 3 when a list mixes bishops from more than one numbered office.
- Apostolic Apostolic age
- Undivided Undivided Church (before 1054)
- Roman Roman obedience (1054–1533)
- Anglican Anglican (1533 Reformation onward)
- ACNA ACNA / GAFCON realignment (2008 onward)
The label marks which communion the bishop held office in — not a judgement about the validity of his orders, which the line itself carries unbroken across every one of these changes.
The line passes from Canterbury to Tanzania (Zanzibar) 1
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The Diocese of Zanzibar founded, 1892 1
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The Diocese of Tanga, 2000 The Diocese of Zanzibar divides — the Diocese of Tanga, 2000 1
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Bishops of Tanga 1
The Diocese of Kahama, 2026 Maimbo Mndolwa consecrates the first Bishop of Kahama — the Diocese of Kahama, 2026 1
Kahama, Tanzania