Church of the Province of Central Africa

The Church of the Province of Central Africa is part of the Anglican Communion, and includes 15 dioceses in Botswana, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Albert Chama is the current archbishop, being installed on 20 March 2011, succeeding Bernard Amos Malango who retired in 2007.

In 1860, Mackenzie became head of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa; and he was consecrated bishop in St George's Cathedral, Cape Town, on 1 January 1861.

[citation needed] Moving from Cape Town, he arrived at Chibisa's village in June 1861 with the goal to establish a mission station at Magomero, near Zomba.

Bishop Mackenzie worked among the people of the Manganja country until January 1862 when he went on a supplies trip together with a few members of his party.

The centre of the Church of the Province of Central Africa teaching is the life and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The basic teachings of the church, or catechism, include: The threefold sources of authority in Anglicanism are scripture, tradition, and reason (borrowing from Thomas Aquinas).

[5] Minor differences of doctrine should not damn or save the soul but are frameworks surrounding the moral and religious life of the believer.