Anglican dioceses of Mount Kenya


The Anglican dioceses of Mount Kenya represent the Anglican presence in east-central, northern and northeastern Kenya. They are part of the Anglican Church of Kenya. The remaining dioceses of the Church are located in the regions Mombasa, Maseno, and Nakuru.

Diocese of Mount Kenya South

The Diocese of Fort Hall was renamed as Mount Kenya diocese in 1964, a few years after its erection from the Diocese of Mombasa; it was then split in 1975, into East and South; Kariuki, the last Bishop of Mount Kenya, became the first Bishop of Mount Kenya South. The Central diocese was split off in 1984, the West in 1993, and then Thika diocese in 1998. The present cathedral is St James's Cathedral Kiambu.

Bishops of Fort Hall

The Diocese of Mount Kenya East was erected from Mount Kenya diocese in 1975 and was itself then split on 1 July 1990, when Kirinyaga diocese was formed: Gitari was elected to that See, but the old cathedral of the eastern mountain diocese was in the new Embu diocese. On 1 July 1997, the Diocese was split again to create Mbeere diocese.

Bishops of Mount Kenya East

Erected in 1984 on the division of Mount Kenya South diocese, the Central diocese was itself split in 1993 and in 1998.

Bishops of Mount Kenya Central

The Kirinyaga diocese was created in July 1990 from the Diocese of Mount Kenya East; the Diocese of Meru was split from this diocese in 1997.

Bishops of Kirinyaga

Mount Kenya West was erected in 1993 from Mount Kenya Central.

Bishops of Mount Kenya West

Between the diocese's erection and Chipman's consecration, the archdeacon, Domenic Mûthoga Ndaî, was Archbishop's Commissary.
The Diocese of Mbeere was erected from the Diocese of Embu on 1 July 1997.

Bishops of Mbeere

1 July 1997 also saw the creation of the Diocese of Meru from the Diocese of Kirinyaga.

Bishops of Meru

Thika diocese was created from portions of two dioceses — Mount Kenya South and Mount Kenya Central — on 1 July 1998.

Bishops of Thika

At the first diocesan synod, 2 July 1998, John Mutonga, the archdeacon, was named the Archbishop's Commissary until the first bishop's consecration.
Marsabit, then in the Diocese of Kirinyaga, was erected into a Mission Area directly under the Archbishop in 2008 — it was therefore part of the All Saints' Cathedral Diocese — and eventually given autonomy as its own diocese in 2011.

Bishops of Marsabit

Rob Martin was the bishop for the Mission Area from 2008, as a suffragan bishop of the Archbishop and therefore of the All Saints' Cathedral Diocese.
Similarly, Murang'a South was another Mission Area of All Saints' from 2008, but originally part of Kirinyaga diocese. It has been a diocese in its own right since 2013.

Bishops of Murang'a South