Fonds AB799 - St Cuthbert's Mission, Tsolo records

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ZA HPRA AB799

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St Cuthbert's Mission, Tsolo records

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  • 1876 - 1971 (Creation)

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(1847-)

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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

On the closing of the library of the Society of St. John the Evangelist, the records were collected together by Canon Wood, Archivist of the Church of the Province, and sent to the Library of the University of the Witwatersrand in April 1973.

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The records illustrate the work done by the S. S. J. E. in the various fields of education, health, translation and evangelising.

The St. Lucy's Hospital was opened in 1908, and there was also a mission farm. These activities continued over the years, and the St. Lucy's Hospital became a well-equipped modern teaching hospital serving a wide area.

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Archivist's note

Compiled by Anna M. Cunningham, May 1973

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