The Anglican Church of Kenya ( ACK ) is a province of the Anglican Communion , and it is composed by 41 dioceses . The current Leader and Archbishop of Kenya is Jackson Ole Sapit . The Anglican Church of Kenya claims 5 million total members. According to a study published in the Journal of Anglican Studies and by Cambridge University Press , the ACK claims 5 million adherents, with no official definition of membership, with nearly 2 million officially affiliated members, and 310,000 active baptised members. The church became part of the Province of East Africa in 1960, but Kenya and Tanzania were divided into separate provinces in 1970.
29-520: Eldama Ravine (sometimes known by the short form E/Ravine ) is a town in Baringo County , Kenya , a few miles north of the equator, geographical coordinates 0° 30' 0" North, 35° 43' 0" East. It was established as an administrative point by British colonialists and later served as a transit route for lumber harvested from surrounding forests. It was previously the headquarters of the former Koibatek District and Eldama Ravine Constituency. It has
58-681: A Supreme Being known as Asis , who is represented by the sun; however, currently, most individuals in the county believe in Christianity. The well-known Christian denominations within Baringo County include the African Inland Church (AIC), Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK), FGCK and Roman Catholic . The current county governor is Benjamin Chesire Cheboi , the deputy governor is Eng. Felix Kipngo'k who
87-486: A dynamic way. This balance of scripture, tradition and reason is traced to the work of Richard Hooker , a sixteenth-century apologist. In Hooker's model, scripture is the primary means of arriving at doctrine and things stated plainly in scripture are accepted as true. Issues that are ambiguous are determined by tradition, which is checked by reason. Like many other Anglican churches, the Anglican Church of Kenya
116-498: A new archbishop was held at a special meeting of synod at All Saints' Cathedral in Nairobi on 20 May 2016, and Jackson Ole Sapit was elected as the new primate. Sapit was installed as the sixth archbishop and primate of Kenya at All Saints' Cathedral in Nairobi on 3 July 2016. The polity of the Anglican Church of Kenya is Episcopal church governance , which is the same as other Anglican churches. That is, headed by bishops from
145-464: A plan was apparently approved in 2008, as of 2018 this would seem not to have been implemented. Mombasa Maseno Mount Kenya Nakuru Each diocese is divided into archdeaconries , each headed by an archdeacon, who is a priest . The archdeaconries are further subdivided into parishes , headed by a rector . Parishes are subdivided into sub-parishes, headed by lay readers . The Anglican Church of Kenya, like all Anglican churches, embraces
174-476: A population of 45,799 (2009 census). It is largely an agricultural trade point producing world popular commercial rose flowers. It is fairly cosmopolitan, having residents from more than half of Kenya's ethnic tribes. Eldama Ravine was first known as Shimoni due to the presence of a narrow ravine through which the Eldama Ravine River flows. Eldama, the non-English part of the name, is derived from
203-449: A total of one hundred and fifty nine (159) schools; one hundred and forty seven being public secondary schools and twelve being private public secondary schools. Kabarnet County Referral Hospital is the largest and best public hospital in the county. There are a total of 172 health facilities; seven level four, 25 level three and 140 level 2 centres. The county headquarters is linked to Nakuru and Eldoret by class C roads which fall under
232-468: A total of thirty electoral wards and one hundred and sixteen locations. The electoral wards is run by an elected Member of County Assembly(MCA) while a location is led by Chief appointed by the national government. Source The county has a population of 666,763 (2019 census) and an area of 10,976.4 km (4,238.0 sq mi). Source Religion in Baringo County The county
261-513: Is Flowrence Jematiah Sergon . The County Executive Committee consists of the following: Other CEC Positions shall be updated by Ruzeki once they are filled. The economy of the county is mainly agro-based. The main food crops grown are maize, pigeon peas, beans, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, sorghum, cassava and finger millet while the cash crops are coffee, cotton, macadamia and pyrethrum. Livestock products include honey, beef, mutton as well as hides and skins. However, little value addition
290-917: Is a member of the Global South and the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON). They declared a state of impaired communion with the Episcopal Church of the United States over the question of allowing blessing of same-sex unions and non-celibate gay clergy, and have supported the Anglican Church in North America as a new province in creation of the Anglican Communion . However, there are dioceses of The Episcopal Church and of
319-713: Is a member of the ecumenical World Council of Churches . In October 2009, the Kenyan Church's leadership reacted to the Vatican's proposed creation of personal ordinariates for disaffected traditionalist Anglicans by saying that although he welcomed ecumenical dialogue and shared moral theology with the Catholic Church, the current GAFCON structures already meet the spiritual and pastoral needs of conservative Anglicans in Africa. The Anglican Church of Kenya
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#1732776151241348-824: Is bordered by Turkana County and West Pokot County to the North, Samburu County and Laikipia County to the East, Nakuru County and Kericho County to the South, Uasin Gishu County to the South West and Elgeyo Marakwet County to the West. It covers an area of 8,655 km . Baringo County lies between Latitudes 00 degrees 13" South and 1 degree 40" north and Longitudes 35 degrees 36" and 36" degrees 30" East. Baringo has seven administrative sub-counties Baringo county has
377-736: Is done to these products. Major urban centres in the county are Kabarnet , Eldama Ravine , Marigat , Mogotio , Kabartonjo , Chemolingot and Tangulbei . Major attractions include: Major tourist hotels in the county are: Kabarnet town hosts a number of university campuses including those of Baringo University, Mount Kenya University , Egerton University , and Kisii University . Secondary schools include Kabarnet High School,solian girls, Baringo High School, Kapropita High School, and Kituro High School, Tabagon Girls, Pemwai Girls, Tenges Boys among others There are six hundred and eighty seven primary schools, out of this 601 are public and 86 are private schools. In Secondary school category they are
406-682: Is largely occupied by the Tugen , Lembus , Ndorois and Pokot people, which are Sub-Tribes of the Kalenjin people . The Tugen people include the Samor , Chapchap , and the Sachek of Sacho. Other communities residing in Baringo County include the Ilchamus , Turkana , Kikuyu , Numbians , and others. Christianity is the most practiced religion in the county. Traditionally, Baringo people believed in
435-410: Is the eldest son of the former deputy governor Charles Kipng'ok who collapsed and died on 14 September 2022, at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport while boarding a plane to Mombasa; barely a month after taking oath of office. The current Senator is William Kipkorir Cheptumo after overwhelmingly defeating the former senator Gideon Moi on the 9 August polls. The current County Women Representative
464-601: The Church of Uganda ); northern Tanzania was separated from the diocese in 1927. Mass conversions of Africans began as early as 1910. In 1955, the diocese's first African bishops, Festo Olang' and Obadiah Kariuki , were consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury , Geoffrey Fisher , in Uganda. In 1960, the province of East Africa, comprising Kenya and Tanzania, was formed with Leonard James Beecher as archbishop. The province
493-514: The Anglican Church of Kenya that continue to partner with one-another. The ACK is also the second member church of GAFCON to ordain women to the episcopate . The second Global Anglican Future Conference was held at All Saints Cathedral, Nairobi , from 21 October to 26 October 2013. The focus was the shared Anglican future, discussing the missionary theme, "Making Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ". The Anglican Church of Kenya
522-632: The Baringo District and Naivasha province, then under the Uganda Protectorate . 0°03′N 35°43′E / 0.050°N 35.717°E / 0.050; 35.717 Baringo County Baringo County is one of the 47 counties in Kenya . It is located in the former Rift Valley Province . Its headquarters and largest town is Kabarnet . The county is home to Lake Baringo , Lake Bogoria and Lake Kamnarok. Baringo
551-631: The Diocese of Nairobi has now been divided into two. The Bishop of Nairobi has the geographically larger diocese, whilst there is a separate diocese of All Saints', based around All Saints' Cathedral. The primate's title is now "Primate and Archbishop of All Kenya". The current archbishop is the sixth since the Province of East Africa was divided into the Provinces of Kenya and Tanzania. Wabukala announced he would retire on 26 June 2016. An election for
580-453: The Greek word, " episcopos ," which means overseer or superintendent. The church maintains a system of geographical parishes organized into dioceses. It has been proposed since before 2005 that the quickly-increasing number of dioceses should be organised into about four or five internal ecclesiastical provinces, each headed by a metropolitan diocesan archbishop, with one primate over all. While
609-828: The Kenya National Highways Authority (KENHA). In January 2016, Fly-SAX began twice-weekly flights between Lake Baringo Airport and Nairobi–Wilson , becoming the first airline to serve the airport. There are 339 kms of bitumen, 2141km of murram and 995 km of earth roads in the county. As of 2014 a total of 9 postal offices were spread across the county with letter boxes of 2950 installed. 2510 of them were rented and 440 remained vacant. The county has six constituencies: Baringo Central , Baringo South , Baringo North , Eldama Ravine , Mogotio , and Tiaty . 0°40′N 36°00′E / 0.667°N 36.000°E / 0.667; 36.000 Anglican Church of Kenya The church
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#1732776151241638-515: The Maasai word ‘eldama’, which means the place of sunshine. It had two areas known as Lembus lowland or Soi (Mogotio constituency) and Lembus highland or Mosop (Eldama Ravine constituency). The British East African Company (IBEACO) established the town in 1887 as a victualing center for caravans moving from the coast to Mumias. Later during the British colonial period, it served as the headquarters of
667-657: The Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s. A number of Kikuyu loyalists who rejected Mau Mau were active church members. When President Daniel arap Moi moved to consolidate his power by suppressing free speech and limiting political opposition, Anglican leaders spoke out in defense of civil rights. David Gitari famously denounced election controls in a 1987 sermon that received considerable criticism from Moi supporters, but other church leaders soon joined in Gitari's criticisms. In 1990, Bishops Henry Okullu and Alexander Muge criticized
696-502: The church's active engagement around civil rights, using his position to promote constitutional changes such as term limits and fairer elections. As of 2008 there were 4,500,000 Anglicans out of an estimated population of 43,000,000, that formed 10.6% of Kenyan's population. The primate of the Church is the Archbishop of All Kenya . The see is fixed at Nairobi. He was previously styled "Archbishop of Kenya and Bishop of Nairobi", but
725-429: The state's investigation of the murder of moderate foreign minister Robert Ouko . Bishop Muge was killed in a suspicious automobile accident later in the year after receiving open threats from a government official. His death spurred bishops Gitari, Okullu, and other Anglican leaders to take an even more active public role, vocally supporting the move to multi-party democracy. Gitari became archbishop in 1995 and continued
754-544: The three traditional Orders of ministry: deacon, priest, and bishop. A local variant of the Book of Common Prayer is used. The center of the Anglican Church of Kenya's teaching is the life and resurrection of Jesus Christ . The basic teachings of the church, or catechism , includes: The threefold sources of authority in Anglicanism are scripture, tradition, and reason. These three sources uphold and critique each other in
783-514: Was divided into two, with Festo Olang' being the first African archbishop of the new province of Kenya in 1970. Manasses Kuria was the Archbishop of Kenya from 1980 to 1994. The Anglican Church of Kenya has been politically active throughout its history. As the official church of the colonial power, the Anglican missions enjoyed a privileged position, and Anglican preachers sharply denounced
812-548: Was founded as the diocese of Eastern Equatorial Africa ( Uganda , Kenya, Tanzania ) in 1884, with James Hannington as the first bishop; however, Protestant missionary activity had been present in the area since 1844, when Johann Ludwig Krapf , a Lutheran missionary, landed in Mombasa. The first Africans were ordained to the priesthood in 1885. In 1898, the diocese was split into two, with the new diocese of Mombasa governing Kenya and northern Tanzania (the other diocese later became
841-734: Was represented at GAFCON III , held in Jerusalem , on 17–22 June 2018, by a 75 members delegation, including Archbishop Jackson Ole Sapit . In 2021, Dioceses in Western Kenya broke with a moratorium imposed by GAFCON against the ordination of women as bishops when the Diocese of Bondo and the Diocese of Butere elected two women as bishops. This sparked controversy within the ACK as some clergy noted that conservatives claim "Western Kenya dioceses are liberal and are ordaining women. [But most] of
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