James Tengatenga
James Tengatenga | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Southern Malawi | |
Tengatenga at the 2008 Lambeth Conference | |
| Church | Church of the Province of Central Africa |
| Diocese | Southern Malawi |
| In office | 1998–2013 |
| Predecessor | Nathaniel Aipa |
| Successor | Alinafe Kalemba |
| Other posts | Chair of the Anglican Consultative Council (2009–2016) Distinguished visiting professor of global Anglicanism, Sewanee (Since 2014) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1985 |
| Consecration | 1998 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 April 1958 Que Que, Southern Rhodesia |
| Denomination | Anglicanism |
| Spouse | Joselyn "Josie" Tengatenga |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | Zomba Theological College (diploma) Seminary of the Southwest (MDiv) University of Malawi (PhD) |
James Tengatenga (born 7 April 1958) is a Malawian Anglican bishop and theologian. As an Anglican leader in the Global South—and as a member and later chairman of the Anglican Consultative Council—he was known for attempting to hold provinces of the Anglican Communion together amid the Anglican realignment and controversies over LGBT clergy in Anglicanism. He was the bishop of Southern Malawi in the Church of the Province of Central Africa from 1998 to 2013, when he was appointed to a deanship at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, United States. This appointment was controversially rescinded by Dartmouth president Philip J. Hanlon over comments Tengatenga had made years before criticizing the consecration of Bishop Gene Robinson, an openly gay man. Tengatenga was later appointed to a post at the School of Theology at Sewanee: The University of the South.