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- 1968 - 1972 (Creation)
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The Anglican Church of Southern Africa, previously known as the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, is the province of the Anglican Communion in Southern Africa. Its primate is the Archbishop of Cape Town. The church includes dioceses in present day South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Angola, Lesotho, Swaziland and St. Helena.
An agreement was signed in 1937 between the Church of the Province of South Africa (CPSA) - now known as the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA) - and the University of the Witwatersrand, whereby the church's central record library was places on loan with the University. The library consisted of books, pamphlets, periodicals and manuscripts. The richness of the Anglican Church's manuscript collection is due to the efforts of the provincial archivists appointed by the church to collect material and transfer it to the university. The first, 1937-1957, was Father Osmund Victor, followed by Canon Cecil Thomas Wood from 1958-1979. Mrs AR Kotze then took over from 1979-2000, until Carol Archibald was appointed as Provincial Archivist in 2001.
Archival history
Folder 1-7: The first deposit is from Canon Carmichael and has been calendared up to the first meeting of the Church Unity Commission in February 1968. This includes a History of the Conversations to 1968 by M.J.D. Carmichael.
Folder 8: The second deposit is from Canon Wood mainly from Bishopscourt. It is grouped in years and unsorted with some duplicates. The annotations where found are by Robert Selby Taylor, the Chairman of the Commission until 1972.
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Biographical and administrative history: Finally, in 1968, the Church Unity Commission was (?). This is still (1976) a continuing body.