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Maimbo William Mndolwa (born 1968) is a Tanzanian Anglican bishop. He is the Bishop of the Diocese of Tanga and was elected Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church of Tanzania on 15 February 2018, with his enthronement taking place on 20 May 2018. He is married to Frida.

Ecclesiastical career

Mndolwa served at the Army before becoming an Anglican priest. Mndolwa studied at St. Mark's Theological College, in Dar es Salaam, and at the College of the Transfiguration, in Grahamstown, South Africa. He also studied at the Virginia Theological Seminary, in Alexandria, Virginia, in the United States, where he earned a Post-Graduation Diploma in Theology in 1999. He became a Master of Theology at the Akrofi-Christaller Memorial Center for Mission Research and Applied Theology and a Ph.D. in Theology at the University of KwaZulu Natal, in South Africa. He earned a D.D. at the Virginia Theological Seminary in 2014.

He was consecrated the second Bishop of the Diocese of Tanga at 4 September 2012. He was elected the seventh Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church of Tanzania at the Synod held on 15 February 2018. He succeeded Jacob Chimeledya in an enthronement ceremony held at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, in Dodoma, on 20 May 2018. He is an Anglo-Catholic.

He was registered to attend GAFCON III, on 17-22 June 2018, but wasn't able to do so.

References

1. Primate of Tanzania elected, Anglican Ink, 16 February 2018
2. "I will be Maimbo" - New Primate of Tanzania honours past as he ushers in new era, Anglican Communion News Service, 21 May 2018
3. GAFCON III largest pan-Anglican gathering since Toronto Congress of 1963, Anglican Ink, 20 June 2018

• 1968 births
• Living people
• Anglo-Catholic bishops
• 21st-century Anglican bishops in Tanzania
• Anglican archbishops of Tanzania
• 21st-century Anglican archbishops
• Anglican bishops of Tanga
• College of the Transfiguration alumni