Episcopal/Anglican Province of Alexandria

Episcopal/Anglican Province of Alexandria
ClassificationProtestant (with various theological and doctrinal identities, including Anglo-Catholic, Liberal, Evangelical)
OrientationAnglican
ScriptureHoly Bible
TheologyAnglican doctrine
PolityEpiscopal
PrimateSamy Fawzy
Dioceses4
AssociationsAnglican Communion, Global South
TerritoryEgypt, 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.

  1. ^ "The Episcopal / Anglican Province of Alexandria officially inaugurated as 41st Province of the Anglican Communion". Anglican Communion News Service. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  2. ^ Strengholt, Jos (June 2012). "ST GEORGE'S ANGLICAN CHURCH, TUNIS A BRIEF HISTORY" (PDF). St Francis Magazine. 8 (3): 306–317. Retrieved 15 November 2012.

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