Current Position
In 1976, the structure of the Anglican church in the region was overhauled.
Jerusalem became an ordinary bishopric, and the four dioceses had equal status in the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East. The Archbishop of Canterbury relinquished his metropolitan authority to a Presiding Bishop and the Central Synod, with the four dioceses rotating the responsibility of the Bishop President and Synodical Leadership. The Central synod includes the four dioceses of the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East. When a Bishop reaches the age of 68, a coadjutor Bishop should be elected to work alongside the Bishop for two years.
The Diocese of Egypt was expanded to take in the chaplaincies of Ethiopia, Somalia, Libya, Tunisia and Algeria.
The Sudan became a fully separate and independent province.
In 1970, the Cathedral of All Saints' in Cairo was demolished to make way for a new Nile bridge. In 1977, work on a new building on Zamalek was begun, and completed in 1988.
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