James Tengatenga

The Rt. Rev. James Tengatenga is on the faculty of the School of Theology at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, as Distinguished Professor of Global Anglicanism.  He is a former bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Southern Malwi in Central Africa. For many years, he served as a member of the Anglican Consultative Council, and the last seven of which as its chair, and president of the Anglican Family Network. He has also served as a member of the Inter-Anglican Commission for Ecumenical Relations. He was twice chair of the Anglican Council in Malawi and once chair of the Malawi Council of Churches. He was also a founding member of the Malawi National AIDS Commission. Before leaving Malawi, he chaired the Public Affairs Committee (the most influential multi-faith civil society body in Malawi). He also served, for a number of years, in the Steering Committee of the Pan-African Civil Educators Network and was a visiting facilitator at the Grail Centre's (South Africa) Training for Transformation training courses. Before becoming bishop, Tengatenga taught at Zomba Theological College and the University of Malawi and has been on the board of the Foundation of St. George's College, Jerusalem, and Zomba Theological College.