Anglican Diocese of Guinea
The Anglican Diocese of Guinea is one of 17 dioceses in the Church of the Province of West Africa and comprises the Republic of Guinea-Conakry. It was created in 1985 by the partition of the Diocese of Gambia and Guinea into the English-speaking Diocese of Gambia and the French-speaking Diocese of Guinea.
The cathedral church of the diocese is the Cathedral of All Saints in Conakry.[1]
The first Christian mission in the area was sponsored by the Church Missionary Society in 1806, but the two missionaries soon succumbed to the unhealthy climate. A second attempt in 1855 by missionaries from Barbados was more successful, when the Reverend James Humble Leacock landed with a lay assistant, John Duport and built the first church in Fallanjhia in the Rio Pongas area. Although James Leacock soon died, John Duport was later ordained by the Bishop of Sierra Leone.[1]
The Diocese of Gambia and Guinea was created in 1935 and in 1951 was one of the five Dioceses (the others were Accra, Lagos, Niger and Sierra Leone) which came together to form the new Province of West Africa. The five provinces have since grown to the current 17 by a process of subdivision, mainly in Ghana. [2]
The current (2015) Bishop of Guinea is Jacques Boston.
List of Bishops
Diocese of Gambia and Guinea
- 1935–1951 John Charles Sydney Daly
- 1951–1957 Roderic Norman Coote
- 1958–1963 St Surridge John Pike
- 1965–1971 Timothy Omotayo Olufosoye (Primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria, 1979-86)
- 1972–1985 Jean Rigal Elisée
Diocese of Guinea
- 1985–1986 Thomas Willy Makole [1](Willy Thomas Yaneh Maccauley)[3]
- Albert David Guillaume Gomez [3]
- 2012–present Jacques Boston [3]
alternatively/additionally
- George Brown (Archbishop of West Africa)[1]
- Prince Eustace Shokellu Thompson (died 1994) (Anglican Bishop of Freetown)[1]
- Robert Garshong Allotey Okine (Archbishop of West Africa)[1]