Malosa (Malawi)

Following a request from David Livingstone, the first missionaries arrived 80 kilometres (50 mi) away at Magomero in 1861.

In 1963 Bishop Donald Arden established the headquarters of the Diocese at Malosa, it having previously been on Likoma Island and at Mponda's.

[4] Malasa was excommunicated from the church in 2022 and was succeeded by Right Reverend William Mchombo who was the Bishop of Eastern Zambia.

Firstly a stream that starts at the top of Malosa Mountain but as it flows down it gets smaller and disappears at the point of Chilema.

For the first few years in the life of the Chilema Ecumenical Lay Training Centre its chapel was under the tree.

On the peaks of the Malosa range there are views of the Shire river, Lake Chilwa, and the Chikala, Chaone, and Mongolowe hills.

The centres inception dates back to 1962 through the leadership of Reverend Jonathan Sangaya of the CCAP and the Rt.

St Luke's Hospital is located nearer the main road and was established in 1964 by Bishop Donald Arden.

His wife Jane drew the plans for all the buildings at the hospital and Nursing School until 1981 and supervised their construction.

The hospital has 145 general and maternity beds and provides surgery and dental treatment as well as staffing 5 outreach clinics that visit villages on a monthly basis.

[14] In 2008 Tanzania-born Thadeo Mac’osano was arrested for using unauthorised drugs on 20 patients with incurable tumours.