Anglican Bishop of Zanzibar

The Bishop of Zanzibar is the Diocesan of an island diocese in the Anglican Church of Tanzania. Its current bishop is Michael Hafidh. The bishop's seat is Christ Church, Zanzibar, the Anglican cathedral in Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Bishops

1892 – 7 May 1894 : Charles Smythies
1895 – 1901 : William Richardson
1901 – 1908 : John Hine : Frank Weston
1925 – 1943 : Thomas Birley
1943 – 1963: Bill Baker

Though the diocese was renamed "Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam" in 1963, the creation of separate dioceses for Dar es Salaam and for Tanga was already planned. When the Diocese of Dar es Salaam was erected in 1965, this remaining diocese was renamed "Zanzibar and Tanga".

1963 – 1968 : Bill Baker
1968–1980: Yohana Jumaa
1980 – 2001 : John Ramadhani
2002 – 9 February 2006 : Douglas Toto
2006 – 2012: vacancy in See
*2006 – 2010: Matthew Mhagama, Vicar-General
*2010 – 2012: Michael Hafidh, Vicar-General
2012 – present: Michael Hafidh

Assistant bishops

On 24 March 1963, three men were consecrated bishops, to serve the diocese in anticipation of a planned three-way split:

1963–1965: John Sepeku, assistant bishop in Dar-es-Salaam, became first bishop of the Diocese of Dar es Salaam on 10 July 1965.
1963–?: Yohana Lukindo, assistant bishop for the Tanga Region, was born 1921, ordained in 1953 and served as Archdeacon of Korogwe, 1961–63.
1963 – 1968 : Robert Neil Russell went to Southern Rhodesia as a missionary in 1933 and later to Tanga. He was consecrated a bishop in March 1963, to serve as an assistant bishop based on Zanzibar Island. He retired to his native Scotland in 1968 and joined the Community of the Transfiguration (Scotland), taking charge of Rosslyn Chapel while also serving as an Assistant Bishop of Edinburgh. He returned to Tanzania in 1982 and later died there.