Filemon MatakaEpiscopal Archives, 1978 was an Anglican bishop"Three Centuries of Mission: The United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1701-2000" O'Connor, D, p399: London; Continuum; 2000 in Zambia"A History of Global Anglicanism" Ward, K p161: Cambridge; CUP; 2006 in the second half of the 20th century: he was the first African bishop in the Church of the Province of Central Africa.Daily Mail, Zambia
Mataka was born in 1909 at Msoro. He was ordained deacon in 1941 and priest in 1943. After service as a priest in the Diocese of Northern Rhodesia he was appointed the Suffragan Bishop of ZambiaThe Beacon, Vol 20 No.1 January 1966 in 1964 and the Archdeacon of Eastern Zambia in 1966. He was priest in charge of St Peter, Lusaka from 1966 to 1969. In 1970 he was appointed Bishop of Zambia and in 1971 he was appointed the first Bishop of Lusaka.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 p648 London: Oxford University Press, 1976.
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