The Anglican Church of Tanzania (ACT; ) is a province of the Anglican Communion based in Dodoma. It consists of 28 dioceses (27 on the Tanzanian mainland, and 1 on Zanzibar) headed by their respective bishops. It seceded from the Province of East Africa in 1970, which it shared with Kenya. The current primate and archbishop is Maimbo Mndolwa, enthroned on 20 May 2018. In 2002, the Anglican Church of Tanzania claimed 2.5 million members. In 2016, peer-review research in the ''Journal of Anglican Studies'', published by Cambridge University Press, reported that there were 2,000,000 members of the Anglican Church of Tanzania. In 2017, ''Growth and Decline in the Anglican Communion: 1980 to the Present'', published by Routledge, collected research reporting there were 3,318,000 Anglicans in Tanzania.
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