through Partnerships
come to me
for every good work
The Rt. Rev. Emmanuel C. Bwatta
As soon as the appointment of the new Diocesan Bishop was officially announced sometime in February this year, I received numerous calls and text messages congratulating me as well as asking me of my feelings and plans for the Diocese. While thanking and appreciating their kind congratulatory messages, I told them honestly that there were no extraordinary feelings in my heart, neither have I got plans for the Diocese. What mattered to me the most at that point of time was the need for me to be still before the Lord and to listen to Him.
It was not about my (human) plans for the Diocese that mattered, rather God’s intended plan and purpose that He wanted me to fulfill during the season of my leadership in the Diocese.
History of the Diocese
The Diocese of Western Tanganyika is one of the eight Dioceses that established the province of the Anglican Church in Tanzania in 1970 after the division of the Church Province of East Africa (Church Province of East Africa) and created two independent provinces. Namely the State Church of Tanzania under Archbishop John Sepeku (Bishop of Dar es Salaam) and the State Church of Kenya under Archbishop Festo Olang’.
