CV Bishop Simon Chiwanga

THE RT. REV. DR. SIMON ELIYA CHIWANGA

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH: 17 FEBRUARY 1939

MARITAL STATUS: MARRIED WITH FIVE CHILDREN

WIFE: GLADYS S. CHIWANGA

2007-TO DATE: - RETIRED BISHOP OF MPWAPWA, TANZANIA,

- EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF THE TANZANIA SERVANT LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE

- SERVING ON THE PASTORAL VISITORS TEAM OF THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION.

1991 – 2007 Bishop, Diocese of Mpwapwa, Anglican Church of Tanzania

MEMBERSHIP

1986 – 90 Member of the Mission Agencies Working Group (Follow up Body of the 1986 Anglican Mission Agencies Conference)

1984 – 2002 Member of the Anglican Consultative Council, including being Vice Chairperson and Chairperson.

1998 – 2002 Member of the ‘Archbishop of Canterbury Working Group’ on Human Sexuality Issue.

2002 - Present Member of TEAC (Theological Education in the Anglican Communion)

EDUCATION

MA (Sociology) University of Dar es Salaam (1974)

M.Th. (Systematics) King’s College, University of London

D. Min. Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass., USA.

I SHARE WITH MY FAMILY THE PASSION FOR FARMING, READING AND SOCCER

GLADYS’ CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME: Mrs Gladys Chiwanga

BORN: 15 May 1945

MARRIED: 31 May 1969

FAMILY: Married to Simon, with five grown up children.

WORK EXPERIENCE

2000 – 2007 Director for Continuing Education Centre

of Mpwapwa Diocese

1991 – 2007 Diocesan Mothers Union President/Advisor

1972 – 1986 Librarian at National and Schools Libraries

1969 – 1971 Teacher – Korogwe Girls Secondary School and

Dodoma Secondary School

MEMBERSHIP

1967 – 2007 Member of the Mothers Union

1982 – 1998 Member of World Council of Churches (WCC) representing Anglican Tanzania

1991 – 1998 Member of the Executive Council of WCC

EDUCATION

1967 – 1969 Diploma in Education – Dar es Salaam Teachers

College, Tanzania

1974 – 1975 Certificate in Librarianship – Makerere University Uganda

1975 – 1978 BA General, University of Dar e Salaam, Tanzania

1997 – 1998 Diploma in Theology, Virginia Theological

School, Alexandria USA

HOBBIES I love gardening, reading, sewing and farming.