Anglican Organisations and Guilds

The following organisations are well developed, with duly constituted diocesan committees and office bearers, and branches in many of the parishes:

• Youth
• Children’s Ministries
• Mothers’ Union (and St Agnes Guild)
• Anglican Women’s Fellowship
• Bernard Mizeki Guild

For contact details of the leadership of the above organisations, click here.

Religious Orders

Community of the Resurrection of our Lord

An Anglican Community of Sisters based in Grahamstown, founded by Mother Cecile in 1884. The CR Sisters have a history of dedicated service in education and welfare in many parts of South Africa and Zimbabwe, and until recently also retained a House in London. In recent years numbers have fallen, and the remaining Sisters are all resident in Grahamstown. However, the first new Sister in many years, Sister Kekeletso, made her Final Profession in 2005. Two of the CR Sisters are ordained priests, including Mother Superior Zelma.

The Order of the Holy Cross (Benedictine)

An Anglican Community of Brothers with their headquarters in the USA. Their monastic community and novitiate in South Africa is based at uMariya uMama weThemba (Mary Mother of Hope), just outside Grahamstown. The first three OHC Brothers arrived in 1998. They took over the running of the retreat house on the property known as Hillandale, which had previously been operated by the CR Sisters. The first three Brothers were all American citizens, one of them a priest, but other men have been exploring their vocation, and the first monk from Africa, Namibian Br. Daniel Ludik, made his life vow at the beginning of May 2010.

College of the Transfiguration

The Church of the Province of Southern Africa has only one residential theological college, the College of the Transfiguration, situated in Grahamstown. Men and women come here from any of the 23 dioceses of the CPSA, and sometimes from beyond, to study full-time, generally for three years. The teaching staff are mainly CPSA clergy, and licensed in the Diocese of Grahamstown. Both staff and students assist from time to time in local parishes.