Valentino Mokiwa
| The Most Reverend Valentino Mokiwa | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Dar es Salaam | |
| Church | Anglican Church of Tanzania |
| See | Dar es Salaam |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1954 |
| Previous post | Archbishop of Tanzania |
Valentino Leonard Mokiwa (born 1954) is a former Tanzanian Anglican Archbishop. He was Primate and Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Tanzania from 2008 to 2013. He is the current Bishop of the Diocese of Dar es Salaam.
He studied at Virginia Theological Seminary, in Alexandria, United States, where he graduated in 1992.
Mokiwa was Bishop of the Diocese of Dar es Salaam when he was elected the new Archbishop of Tanzania in a special session held during the General Synod of his church in Dodoma, on 28 February 2008. He was installed in Dodoma on 25 May 2008, succeeding Donald Mtetemela.[1]
Mokiwa, a theological Anglo-Catholic, like his predecessor, was also strongly critical of the departures of the Anglican tradition taken by the Episcopal Church of the United States and the Anglican Church of Canada. He supported the Anglican realignment, attending the Global Anglican Future Conference in Jerusalem, in 2008, and shortly after, the Lambeth Conference.[2] He also expressed his support for the Anglican Church in North America, launched in 2009. He lost the reelection in a controversial runoff on 21 February 2013 to Jacob Chimeledya, amid fraud charges, his successor would be enthroned on 19 March 2013.[3]
He has remained as Bishop of Dar es Salaam but decided not to attend GAFCON II, held in Nairobi, Kenya, in October 2013.
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| Anglican Communion titles | ||
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| Preceded by Donald Mtetemela |
Primate of the Anglican Church of Tanzania 2008–2013 |
Succeeded by Jacob Chimeledya |