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 South Africa, there are between 3 and 4 million Anglicans out of an estimated population of 45 million.^[1][a]

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.

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