Former refugee becomes next Secretary General of the Anglican Communion

Jun 14, 2022 by

by Tola Mbakwe, Premier:

The Anglican Communion has announced a South Sudanese bishop will be its next Secretary General.

Right Rev Anthony Poggo is currently the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Adviser on Anglican Communion Affairs and the former Bishop of Kajo-Keji in the Episcopal Church of South  Sudan.

He will take up his new role in September, succeeding the Most Revd Dr Josiah Idowu-Fearon, who steps down after next month’s Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops.

As a former child refugee he said he knows importance of reconciliation and plans to bring that to his new position.

Born in 1964, in what is now South Sudan, Bishop Anthony and his siblings were taken by his father – an Anglican priest – and his mother into Uganda to flee the first Sudanese Civil War. In 1973, at the age of nine, he returned with his family to South Sudan.

He said: “It has reminded me of the importance of reconciliation. I have seen the impact of conflict, the impact of war. People my age have now been displaced at least three times – South Sudanese my age have now been displaced three times. That is not good. That is not healthy. Hence the importance of reconciliation.

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