Anglican Church of Southern Africa

Anglican Church of Southern Africa
Classification	Anglican
Orientation	Anglican
Scripture	Holy Bible
Theology	Anglican doctrine
Polity	Episcopal
Primate	Thabo Makgoba Archbishop of Cape Town
Headquarters	20 Bishopscourt Drive, Bishopscourt, 7708 Cape Town, South Africa
Territory	Eswatini Lesotho Namibia Saint Helena South Africa
Independence	1870; 154 years ago (1870)
Members	c. 3–4 million[1]
Official website	anglicanchurchsa.org

The Anglican Church of Southern Africa, known until 2006 as the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, is the province of the Anglican Communion in the southern part of Africa. The church has twenty-five dioceses, of which twenty-one are located in South Africa, and one each in Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia and Saint Helena.

In the 2001 South African Census, there were a recorded 1.7 million Anglicans out of a total South African population of close to 45 million.^[2] No accurate census figures have been available since then. The Anglican Church of Southern Africa estimated in 2006 that there were between 3 and 4 million Anglicans across Angola, Lesotho, Swaziland, Mocambique, Namibia, South Africa and the island of St Helena.^[3] A study published in 2020 produced an estimated figure of 2.3 million (4%) Anglicans in South Africa as of 2015.^[4] Anglicans were estimated to make up around 7.4% of the population of Lesotho in 2021.^[5] The Diocese of Swaziland had 90000 members in 2021.^[6]

Up until September 2021 four dioceses in Mozambique and Angola (three in Mozambique and one in Angola) were part of Anglican Church of Southern Africa, these dioceses now form part of the Anglican Church of Mozambique and Angola.

The primate is the Archbishop of Cape Town. The current archbishop is Thabo Makgoba, who succeeded Njongonkulu Ndungane in 2006. From 1986 to 1996 the primate was Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu.