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- 1903 - 1991 (Creation)
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35 boxes
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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.
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Contains records relating to St. peter's College from its origins in Rosettenville and during its subsequent moves to Alice, when it became a constituent College of the Federal Theological Seminary, to St. Bede's in the then Transkei and finally to Imbali near Pietermaritzburg.
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Biographical and administrative history: The Seminary was then accommodated in 1975 at the Edendale lay Ecumenical Centre and finally at Imbali near Pietermaritzburg. In 1989 the decision was made to become a United rather than a Federal institution and in 1991 the separate colleges ceased to exist