Anthony Poggo

During his childhood, Poggo's father, an Anglican priest, took his children to Uganda to flee the first Sudanese Civil War. They returned in 1973.^[2] Poggo was educated at the University of Juba and Oxford Brookes University.^[3]

Poggo worked for the Scripture Union. He was ordained a deacon in 1995 and a priest in 1996. He then joined Across, a Christian mission agency working in Sudan, eventually becoming its executive director.^[4] In 2007 he was elected bishop of the South Sudanese diocese of Kajo-Keji, a position he held until 2016 when he moved to Lambeth Palace to support Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby as his adviser on Anglican Communion affairs.^[5] In 2022, he succeeded Josiah Idowu-Fearon as secretary-general of the Anglican Communion.^[3]