Communion News : Zimbabwe : Jubilant Anglicans Return [To] Their Churches
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article36756
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 2013 January
- Issue
- 130
- Page
- 5
- Notes
- "Thousands of Anglicans flocked to St. Mary and All Saints Cathedral on 16 December [2012] to see Bishop of Harare Chad Gandiya reclaim the cathedral and hold a special service marking the Province's return to their proper ties. It followed the Church of the Province of Central Africa's recent victory in a long-running legal battle with excommunicated former bishop Dr. Nolbert Kunonga who broke away from the CPCA in 2007 to form his own church. He and his supporters seized cars, churches, orphanages and other CPCA properties claiming they belonged to him. Zimbabwe's Supreme Court eventually ruled he should return all the properties to the Diocese of Harare. Bp. Chad recalled the challenging times that the church went through. He said that, 'all those five years we were driven from our churches and went into exile, life was not easy but God was with us. We survived and found grace in exile.' To watch a video of Anglicans returning to the Cathedral visit http://www.youtube.com/user/theacoffice".
- Subjects
- Zimbabwe - Politics and government - 1980-
- Church of the Province of Central Africa. Diocese of Harare
- Church and state - Zimbabwe - Church of the Province of Central Africa
- Gandiya, Chad (Chad Nicholas), 1953-
- Kunonga, Nolbert, 1950-
- Location
- General Synod Archives