In the Province of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa
(Archbishop Thabo Makgoba)

Bishop of Lebombo

The Rt. Reverend Dinis Sengulane, CMG

Bisphop Dinis Sengulane

Bishop’s and Diocesan Office
CP 120, Maputo, Mozambique.
Tel: 00258 21405364

ALMA Link Officer: Josephine Mutemba

Diocesan Secretary: Bento Eliseu Michangula
Mothers’ Union President: Leonor Wamusse Zacarias
Coordinator for HIV/AIDS: Cristôvão João Munguambe
Coordinator for Malaria: Marinela Chachine

Bishop’s Commissaries in the UK:
Miss Joan Antcliff, MBE, 01626 872726
Miss Elizabeth Tucker, 020 8368 3919

Lebombo Diocese Map

Some key facts about the diocese:

The diocese was founded in 1893.
It covers the six civil provinces south of the River Zambezi.
Bishop Dinis Sengulane was ordained Bishop in 1976.
The cathedral church is St Augustine’s at Maciene, 240 miles north of Maputo.
St Christopher’s Anglican Seminary in Maputo serves both Mozambique and Angola.

About Bishop Dinis:

Bishop Dinis was born in 1946. After conscription in the Portuguese army he trained for the priesthood at Salisbury Theological College. Ordained deacon at 27 and priest at 28, he was consecrated a suffragan bishop at the age of 30 and became Diocesan bishop at 31 - the first African bishop of the diocese. On 25 March 2006 he celebrated the 30th anniversary of his consecration as Bishop.

He was awarded the All Africa Council of Churches Peace Prize for his work in establishing peace and reconciliation after the long civil war (1992). He was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for his work in developing Anglo-Mozambique relations and the Cross of St Augustine by the Archbishop of Canterbury for his service to the Anglican Communion.

Sadly, his wife Berta was killed in a road accident at Zove in 1998. He has three sons and one daughter.