Episcopal/Anglican Province of Alexandria | |
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Classification | Protestant (with various theological and doctrinal identities, including Anglo-Catholic, Liberal, Evangelical) |
Orientation | Anglican |
Scripture | Holy Bible |
Theology | Anglican doctrine |
Polity | Episcopal |
Primate | Samy Fawzy |
Dioceses | 4 |
Associations | Anglican Communion, Global South |
Territory | Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Djibouti, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya |
The Episcopal/Anglican Province of Alexandria is a province of the Anglican Communion. Its territory was formerly the Diocese of Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa. On 29 June 2020 the diocese was elevated to the status of an ecclesiastical province, and became the forty-first province of the Anglican Communion.[1] The primate and metropolitan of the province is the Archbishop of Alexandria.
Its jurisdiction extends over North Africa and the Horn of Africa, a vast region encompassing the nations of Algeria, Tunisia,[2] Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Djibouti.