SUDAN: Archbishop inaugurates Diocese of Terekeka as province's 25th diocese
Episcopal News Service. February 9, 2009 [020909-02]
Matthew Davies
The Episcopal Church of the Sudan now consists of 25 dioceses following the formal inauguration of the Diocese of Terekeka on Sunday, January 25 by Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul.
Deng chaired the first synod of the Diocese of Terekeka on January 24. The synod unanimously nominated the Rt. Rev. Micah Leila Dawidi, currently assistant bishop of Juba, as their sole preferred candidate for diocesan bishop of Terekeka.
"Getting the diocese has been the easy part for Terekeka, but continuing it, developing it and caring for it will be the difficult work," Deng told synod members. "Above all the new diocese must bring people together and unite them in order to bring change in Terekeka."
Deng has said that during the next few years he expects several more dioceses to be created in the Episcopal Church of the Sudan, which is home to four million Episcopalians in the largest country on the African continent.