Anglican Bishop of Santiago
The Anglican Bishop of Santiago is a bishop in the Anglican communion, the head of the Anglican Diocese of Santiago within the Anglican Church of Chile. Until 2018, the bishop and diocese were "of Chile", in the Anglican Church of South America.
The diocese was founded in 1963 from the Diocese of the Falkland Islands.
The diocesan seat is the Santiago Community Church in Santiago. The incumbent diocesan bishop is Tito Zavala, who was appointed in 2000.
In November 2018, the former Chile diocese become a province in its own right, subdivided into four new dioceses ; Zavala remained in post, as his See and Diocese were renamed Santiago, and he was additionally elected inaugural metropolitan bishop and Primate/Presiding Bishop of the province.Bishops
Kenneth Walter Howell was a British-born Anglican bishop who served as the first bishop of the diocese. He was deaconed in Advent 1933 and priested the next Advent — both times by Richard Parsons, Bishop of Southwark, at Southwark Cathedral. He was consecrated a bishop by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey on 18 October 1963. He later served as an Assistant Bishop of London.- 1963–1971: Kenneth Howell, Bishop of Chile, Bolivia, and Peru
- *1969–1977: Colin Bazley, assistant bishop for Cautin & Malleco, then for the Santiago region
- *1970–1972: David Pytches, assistant bishop for the Valparaíso region
- 1972–1976: David Pytches, Bishop of Chile, Bolivia, and Peru
- 1977–2000: Colin Bazley, Bishop of Chile, Bolivia, and Peru, of Chile and Bolivia, and of Chile alone
- *12 June 19942018: Abelino Apeleo, auxiliary bishop
- *1998–2000: Tito Zavala, bishop coadjutor
- 1 January 2000present: Tito Zavala
- *19 March 2016present: Nelson Ojeda, auxiliary bishop
- *19 March 2016present: Alfred Cooper, auxiliary bishop
- *15 July 20182018: Enrique Lago, auxiliary bishop
- *15 July 20182018: Samuel Morrison, auxiliary bishop
