Diocese of Worc Morogoro Fund

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The Diocese of Worcester in England has a partnership with the Diocese of Morogoro in Tanzania that began in 2011 with a Friendship Agreement. The partnership includes: Ordination and confirmation liturgies, Building parish and school links, Sharing skills and understanding, The Mamboya Eco-Project, and The Mission Morogoro charity.

Christian Mission in the Anglican tradition began in the Morogoro area through the dedicated work of the Church Missionary Society at the end of the nineteenth century. Over the next few decades, the hard work of sowing the seeds of a living faith in Christ led slowly to the creation of an Anglican Province of Tanzania from eight dioceses in 1970. One of these eight dioceses, formed only five years earlier in 1965, was the Diocese of Morogoro. There are now 27 dioceses which form the Anglican Church in Tanzania, and that number is expected to increase through growth in the church.

The Diocese of Morogoro covers an area of 80,339 square kilometres and encompasses some of the most beautiful scenic areas within the country, including the Ukaguru and the Uluguru mountain ranges. Most of the inhabitants of the Diocese live in rural areas which are often remote with a smaller number living in small towns and in the ‘hub’ city of Morogoro, where the Bishop, Cathedral and staff team are based. The Diocesan Bishop is the Rt Revd Godfrey Sehaba, who was elected and ordained Bishop in 2008.

The main areas for growth and development within the Diocese are education and training at all levels, community development, better health provision for all (especially in maternal health) and church planting, and the growth of new Christians able to own and articulate their faith.

Our friends in Morogoro have been hit much harder than us by the impact of climate change, with droughts, floods and even a plague of locusts in recent years. It therefore seems appropriate that we should look to raise funds to support them.

For the past few years, during Lent we have alternated raising money for our link dioceses in Peru and Morogoro. We are hugely grateful to parishes for their generosity and there is no doubt that the funds we’re able to send make a real difference in both countries.