Vicente Msosa
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2021–present (as diocesan bishop)
Vicente Msosa | |
|---|---|
| Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Church of Mozambique and Angola Bishop of Zambezia | |
| Church | Anglican Church of Mozambique and Angola |
| Diocese | Zambezia |
| In office | 2025–present (as presiding bishop) 2021–present (as diocesan bishop) |
| Predecessor | See created |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 2013 |
| Consecration | 25 February 2017 by Thabo Makgoba |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 February 1981 Chuanga, Mozambique |
| Denomination | Anglicanism |
| Spouse | Anastacia Msosa |
| Children | 3 |
Vicente Msosa (born 18 February 1981) is a Mozambican Anglican bishop. He was the youngest bishop in the Anglican Communion when he was consecrated as bishop of Niassa in 2017 at the age of 35. Since 2024, he has been the first elected presiding bishop of the Anglican Church of Mozambique and Angola (Igreja Anglicana de Mocambique e Angola, or IAMA), the newest province of the Anglican Communion.
Msosa was born in Chuanga, Mozambique, in 1981. He was educated locally and after finishing secondary school, he moved to the Teacher Training College, where he studied to be a teacher. While working as a teacher he was also involved in evangelism.[1]
He studied theology at the College of the Transfiguration, in Grahamstown, South Africa, where he obtained a diploma. He was ordained a deacon and later a priest in 2013. He then studied for a degree in theology at Malawian Lake Anglican University.[2] He was the priest at the São Paulo's Church in Lichinga when he was elected bishop.[3]